The Boston Marathon has made a new registration process. The faster you beat your qualifying time the earlier you get to register. They are also lowering the times to qualify by 5 minutes across the board. Translating into, its going to be harder to get in. See link below for the news release:
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It wasn’t that long ago that the qualifying times were increased. I guess the time standard has little to do with the quality of the runner(s), rather it is a way simply to control entry numbers.
This is generating HUGE buzz across the running community. Maybe I have waited TOO long to run Boston. The problem is, the organizers do not know WHAT they want the race to be, and runners no longer know HOW to actually get in. I do not think the organizers truly want ONLY the “fastest”, they just want the “fast enough” whatever that means. Runners want a guarantee of “if I run a x:xx marathon, I will DEFINITELY get in”. I think Boston may be better off going the New York route: Qualify OR lottery, or maybe even Qualify AND lottery with a lower-level qualifying time. Just my 2 cents.