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Michael Helgeson IVS Marathoner Running: Anything over 8 hours is excessive! Posts: 228 Gender:	Boston Marathon registration Sep 12^th, 2011, 7:10am Pat Arnold reminded me, Boston Marathon registration opens today for those who are 20+ minutes faster than their qualifying time.
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Michael Helgeson IVS Marathoner Running: Anything over 8 hours is excessive! Posts: 228 Gender:	Re: Boston Marathon registration Reply #1 - Sep 27^th, 2011, 2:10pm Registration is now closed. If you ran a time 1:14 faster than your qualifying time (or faster), you got accepted. They had to reject more than 3000 applicants. Since next year's qualifying times are 5 minutes faster, I assume everyone that meets these times will get in.
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RobF

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Re: Boston Marathon registration
Reply #2 - Sep 27^th, 2011, 2:32pm

I think I'm OK with this. The race can only accommodate so many runners. If Boston does not do anything it risks becoming nothing special. I know many would disagree, especially those who struggle to make the existing time cuts and for whom this has been a dream to accomplish. The reason people hope to run it is because of its exclusivity. You have to draw a line somewhere.

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Terry Whitehead IVS Marathoner Luck is when prepardness meets opportunity. Posts: 187 Gender:	Re: Boston Marathon registration Reply #3 - Sep 28^th, 2011, 7:45am Actually I am a little surprised they turned down only 3,000 or so (14%) of the applicants. I would have thought it would be much higher based on the new criteria for registering. Good luck to those from the Peoria area who made it through the process.
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