Wednesday, September 30, 2015

It's official 2:28 was the cutoff.

Wow.


The rejection letter...




From BAA (http://www.baa.org/news-and-press/news-listing/2015/september/2016-boston-marathon-qualifier-acceptances.aspx):
 Notification to applicants on Wednesday, September 30

BOSTON – The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) today continued its notification to applicants of their acceptance into the 2016 Boston Marathon®. In preparation for the 2016 Boston Marathon, the B.A.A. implemented the same registration process for qualified runners as it used in the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 Marathons, allowing the fastest qualifiers to register first. The 120th Boston Marathon will be held on Monday, April 18, 2016 and will mark the 31st consecutive year that the event will have John Hancock Financial as its principal sponsor.

In cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the eight cities and towns along the Boston Marathon route, the B.A.A. has set the field size for the 2016 Boston Marathon at 30,000 official entrants. More than 80% of the field will be comprised of athletes who have met the qualifying standards. The balance will consist of invitational entrants, many of whom run for local charitable organizations. Since 1989, between the B.A.A.’s Official Charity Program and principal sponsor John Hancock Financial’s Non-Profit Bib Program for the Boston Marathon, more than $234 million has been raised for charity. 

Registration for runners who met the B.A.A.’s Qualifying Standards for the 2016 Boston Marathon began on Monday, September 14 at 10:00 a.m. ET using a “rolling admission” schedule and continued through Saturday, September 19 at 10:00 p.m. ET. Registration re-opened on Monday, September 21 at 10:00 a.m. and application submissions were received through Wednesday, September 23 at 5:00 p.m. ET.

Qualifiers who were two minutes, 28 seconds (2:28) or faster than the Qualifying time for their age group and gender were accepted into the 2016 Boston Marathon.

    28,594 applications were received during the registration period for qualifiers.
    24,032 Qualified applicants have been accepted to date or are in the process of being accepted, pending verification of their qualifying performance.
    4,562 applicants were unable to be accepted due to the large number of eligible qualifiers who submitted an application for entry combined with field size limitations.
    Details of the B.A.A.’s registration process for Qualifiers can be found on the following web page: http://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/participant-information/athlete-registration.aspx

During the registration period, the breakdown of accepted Qualifiers was as follows:

    4,744 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by 20 minutes, 00 seconds or faster.
    7,495 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by 10 minutes, 00 seconds or faster.
    6,849 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by 05 minutes, 00 seconds or faster.
    4,540 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by 02 minutes, 28 seconds or faster.
    404 Qualifiers were accepted based on finishing 10 or more consecutive Boston Marathons.

During the second week of registration, 5,252 Qualifiers were accepted.

Those who submitted a verified qualifying performance that was 2 minutes, 28 seconds or faster than the qualifying standard for their age and gender have been accepted into the race. Qualifying performances for the 2016 Boston Marathon must have been run between September 13, 2014 and September 19, 2015.  Notices via e-mail to those accepted will be issued by the B.A.A. beginning today.

Of the registered athletes, 404 Qualifiers who have an active streak of ten or more consecutive Boston Marathons completed entered during a pre-registration period in August and have been accepted. In the coming months, qualified elite athletes and athletes with disabilities will be added to the field.

For reference, Qualifiers needed to be one minute, 02 seconds or faster for their age group and gender for the 2015 Boston Marathon, and one minute, 38 seconds or faster for their age group and gender for the 2014 Boston Marathon.  

16 comments:

  1. Well [censored]. Who are these people and their superhuman legs?

    Still, I want to reiterate that this blog was extremely therapeutic for me as I waited it out. I'm sure I'll be waiting it out again someday and I hope this is still around when I do.

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  2. Your work and final -2:10 prediction was spot on. And your concern about Berlin caused me to think about Boston and the high qualification that was there, which I think contributed to the extra :18 seconds. It's impossible to pin this thing down as individual circumstances and whether to register or not, qualification day weather impacts it so much. Nobody could have done a better, more thoughtful or more precise analysis than what you did. Tremendous work ! I am sorry if you did not get an acceptance. You deserve to be there 100%.

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  3. Agree with the other folks; you did an amazing job!! Your prediction was very close, and your tracking of the races as the year progressed really gave us all a good feel for how the cutoff was looking.

    As someone that missed the cutoff, I am disappointed, but you helped me come to terms with that a lot sooner than today. I knew the cutoff was going to be pretty severe after Boston.

    Please consider doing this again!

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  4. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I can't imagine the hours spent going through all of this data. It was incredibly reassuring to us squeakers. Hard to believe the cutoff was so tough this year!

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  5. I'd like to join the rest of the "squeaker" community in thanking you for your work on this. Excellent job all the way through! Condolences on your non-acceptance, but in or not we are all qualifiers!

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  6. As someone who missed it by 8 seconds, reading your blog helped soften the blow so thanks!

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  7. Read the letter. I am so sorry. You deserve to be there on the merit. You deserve to be there on making a major contribution to the BM community. I think you should get advertisers for your website and a donation button on your website, get a charity bib for 2016 and do this analysis again next year. You will get seeded according to your qualifying time in the right wave/corral. You qualified. Just run it.

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  8. Sorry that you did not get into Boston this year. I understand how you feel. I would like to thank you for all the hard work you put into this analysis, it was excellent by all standards.

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  9. I feel your pain as I got the same letter. I was 28 seconds too slow but I thank you as others have for putting in all the time and work into this blog.

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  10. I was looking for some contact info for you but I was unable to find it. Anyway, I commented on one of your posts during the Squeaker Purgatory that I was considering taking on this effort for 2017. Anyway, I have started with St George and was thinking I could post it today or tomorrow. I hope that is OK with you as this is sort of your "baby" so to speak.

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  11. I decided not to signed up with my 2:22 cutoff time because of hotels and flight prices. I am glad I didn't book my stuff assuming I would get in. This is was a tough year! We all have to run faster next year!

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  12. I participated in 7 Boston marathons since 2001. There were 11,000 entrants in 2001 and they could not fill them up 2 weeks before April 15th. The same situation in 2003, 2004, and 2007. In 2009, the race was filled up in 45 minutes. Statically, that an impossibility. This is before the interest after the bombing in 2013. The only change seen was that around 2007-2009 is they started to switch from shoe chips to RF id chips in bibs. Everyone has to turn in their shoe chips after the race. RF id chips are light and you can carry many. Draw your own conclusions.

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