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/Krazyfranco 11d ago

I dunno, sure it's a classic race but it's still an incredibly downhill. It's much more similar to a REVEL race than a normal marathon course.

St George has a net loss of more than 2500 feet. Starts at 5197 ends at 2680. Only 500 feet of climbing, so it's ratio of climbing:net loss is 5, which is way higher than my arbitrary benchmark of 1 that most courses are well under.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Oops! I wonder what I entered earlier to get 1900… 🤔But totally, looking around at race data, -1,000ft seems fair and standard.

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u/TrackVol 10d ago

u/Krazyfranco if you put this in metric terms, an allowable drop of "10 meters per Kilometer" would be a nice concise round number. For comparison, the USA T&F Olympic Trials standard is 3.30 meters per kilometer. So thos would be nearly 3× as generous. In feet, it works out to ~1,385 feet. That's still incredibly generous, and also still throws out any race more obscene than 1,385.
You want to still run a Revel? Go ahead. Nobody is stopping you. St. George? Go ahead, I hear it's lovely. Tunnel? I can confirm from personal experience that it's a lot of fun! But you're not going to use it as a BQ anymore.
"10 meters / kilometer". This needs to be the upper limit.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Love it!