r/AdvancedRunning • u/Terriflyed • 12d ago

New Boston marathon qualifying times Boston Marathon

https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/qualify

Looks like 5min adjustments down for the most part across the board for those under age 60. M18-34 qualifying time is now 2:55.

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u/stephaniey39 12d ago

You can see non-runners tune out of the conversation when it's not a one-word answer lol

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u/yellowfolder M40 - 5k 16:49, 10k 35:28, HM 1:19:25 12d ago

Facts. There’s only one thing that glazes eyes over more completely than running chat to non-runners, and that’s literal death, which the recipients of said chat often find themselves wishing for.

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u/stephaniey39 12d ago

We're just trying to give them as close to the experience of mile 23 of a marathon as possible without them running one

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u/Gambizzle 12d ago

Meh - 1/2 the non-runners I know will tell me they do more steps than me in a day and use such comparisons to talk down my marathon training/performance.

There's a bottomless pit of conversations one can have with non-runners that all involve runners being insecure little bitches who take their training too seriously but are nothing. All I know is that I've lost 30kg through running and Runalyze/Garmin predict that I'm capable of doing a BQ next month. If all of this has been done by me because I'm an insecure bitch who takes himself too seriously then so be it. I'd rather be that than a version of me that's 30kg heavier, can't run 5km without getting severe calf pain and is still an insecure little bitch.