2013 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon BQs

The 2013 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon was run on November 2, 2013. There were a total of 3,521 finishers and 518 people met the minimum BQ standard.

Age Group	Women			Men
	Finishers	BQ	BQ Rate	Finishers	BQ	BQ Rate
18-34	629	80	12.7%	636	86	13.5%
35-39	299	36	12.0%	319	30	9.4%
40-44	238	33	13.9%	339	45	13.3%
45-49	154	36	23.4%	284	56	19.7%
50-54	100	15	15.0%	218	34	15.6%
55-59	49	10	20.4%	107	21	19.6%
60-64	42	8	19.0%	71	16	22.5%
65-69	6	1	16.7%	23	10	43.5%
70-74				7	1	14.3%
75-79
80+
Total	1,517	219	14.4%	2,004	299	14.9%
Note: Data is from the 2013 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon. BQ = Met minimum BQ Standard for age and gender.

This year's bib list is posted, and there are 4,754 people registered (if everyone finishes, that will be an increase of 35% over last year). More finishers, generally means more BQs. More BQs this year over last year will influence the Cutoff 2016, pushing it upwards from it's current trend.

New York City Marathon Timing Chip Read Rate near Perfect

The 2013 New York City marathon, saw over 50,000 runners complete the race. Each runner passed over 11 timing mats en route to the finish line. That equated to 549,397 successful chip reads - a chip read rate of 99.6%.

Splits	Chip Reads	Read Rate
Start Time	50,134	100.0%
5K Split	50,038	99.8%
10K Split	49,196	98.1%
15K Split	50,070	99.9%
20K Split	49,998	99.7%
Half-marathon Split	49,931	99.6%
25K Split	50,029	99.8%
30K Split	50,017	99.8%
35K Split	49,907	99.5%
40K Split	49,943	99.6%
Finish Time	50,134	100.0%
Total Chip Reads	549,397	99.6%

Stats are only for those who completed the race (i.e. had a start time and a finish time).

BQ Rates at Mega Marathons

Here are the numbers from the 2013 editions of the Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Marine Corps Marathon and New York Marathon. These marathons are all members of the top 25 feeder marathons for the Boston Marathon. These marathons each have over 20,000 participants in them.

Age Group	Berlin (2013)		Chicago (2013)		Marine Corps (2013)		New York (2013)
	Finishers	BQ Rate	Finishers	BQ Rate	Finishers	BQ Rate	Finishers	BQ Rate
F18-34	2,234	9.4%	8,938	6.7%	4,511	5.0%	7,365	5.9%
F35-39	1,249	13.8%	2,851	8.2%	1,667	5.2%	3,250	7.3%
F40-44	1,677	15.4%	2,420	9.5%	1,557	5.5%	3,528	8.5%
F45-49	1,706	19.2%	1,524	13.6%	985	8.5%	2,477	12.8%
F50-54	1,207	20.4%	1,005	12.5%	708	6.5%	1,661	12.0%
F55-59	485	22.7%	423	14.2%	302	6.6%	791	12.5%
F60-64	208	28.8%	166	13.3%	116	5.2%	329	12.5%
F65-69	69	36.2%	48	16.7%	42	4.8%	102	15.7%
F70-74	21	23.8%	12	25.0%	7	0.0%	36	8.3%
F75-79	2	50.0%	-	-	1	0.0%	3	0.0%
F80+	2	0.0%	-	-	-	-	4	50.0%
M18-34	5,715	11.0%	8,007	7.2%	4,704	4.1%	7,457	5.9%
M35-39	3,919	13.5%	3,596	8.5%	2,188	3.5%	5,009	5.7%
M40-44	5,199	15.3%	3,582	8.9%	2,355	3.5%	5,985	6.9%
M45-49	5,224	18.6%	2,512	12.7%	1,704	5.2%	4,744	8.8%
M50-54	3,785	18.4%	1,975	12.9%	1,239	5.2%	3,845	9.8%
M55-59	1,932	18.2%	1,033	13.3%	704	7.4%	1,857	10.3%
M60-64	924	24.4%	511	16.2%	392	10.5%	1,101	11.4%
M65-69	374	31.0%	184	17.9%	142	9.9%	383	12.0%
M70-74	148	25.7%	51	21.6%	50	10.0%	153	13.7%
M75-79	36	22.2%	13	7.7%	7	0.0%	39	12.8%
M80+	6	0.0%	3	0.0%	4	25.0%	15	6.7%
Total	36,122	16.0%	38,854	9.1%	23,385	5.0%	50,134	7.9%

Notes: BQ Rate is the percentage of people per age group who met the minimum Boston Qualifying Standard.

Interesting observations:

The Berlin Marathon in 2013 had a significantly higher BQ rate than the other Mega-Marathons. 

The Marine Corps Marathon in 2013 had a significantly lower BQ rate than the other Mega-Marathons. My initial assumption was bad weather; however, that does not seem to be the case as the MCM website lists the weather for that race, October 27, 2013; to be a high of 63F, a low of 43F and Sunny.