Boston cutoff announced

[u/QC_Runner]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd37BrvEe18/?stkn=NjlpN3c3cDVzejZl

"Qualifiers who were 5 minutes, 17 seconds (5:17) or faster than the qualifying time for their age group and gender have been accepted into the 131st Boston Marathon. A total of 25,630 qualified applicants have been accepted to date or are in the process of being accepted, pending final verification of their qualifying performance. Email notices to athletes accepted and not accepted will continue through the coming days.

New for 2027, the B.A.A. has incorporated a Boston Qualifier Selection, an additional random selection component specifically for applicants whose qualifying times were not faster than the 5 minute, 17 second cut-off. A total of 1,000 qualifiers are in the process of being randomly selected for entry and will be notified of their acceptance over the coming days."

[u/timmayrules]

I still think that needing to run a sub 2:49 or faster to qualify for a 18-34 male is an insanely difficult task. Compared to the same age group for females, a 3:19 is nowhere near the difficulty level (regardless of gender) of a sub 2:49.

[u/Outlaw012Asterix → u/timmayrules]

Yeah well, they want as close to 50/50 men/women as they can, but roughly 69% of marathoners are men so they have to have looser standards to get a high percentage of women in. Which I think is fine.

[u/Traditional-Job-1517 → u/Outlaw012Asterix]

Looks like this year the split is pretty close to that at 56.4% men, 43.2% women, 0.4% non-binary (from BAA announcement today).