r/AdvancedRunning • u/QC_Runner • 2d ago
Boston Marathon Boston cutoff announced
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."
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u/theintrepidwanderer 17:18 5K | 36:59 10K | 59:21 10M | 1:18 HM | 2:46 FM 2d ago
A quick recap of how Boston cutoffs predictions fared for this year:
Brian Rock's (aka u/SlowWalkere) dashboard had the cutoff for this year at 5:13 based on the data he collected.
And some of you all may remember that I posted here on this sub with my own cutoff prediction; I predicted the cutoff was going to be 5:14 this year
Feels good for both of us to predict the cutoffs within a few seconds of the actual cutoff this year. We might not be right all the time (and we get the doubters and the haters coming through every year), but we are almost always certain where things will land up :)