Running with Rock

The Sydney Marathon returned last weekend for its second year as an official part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors.

This is a question that’s been lingering throughout the year.

Last month, BAA announced a new lottery for runners who met their Boston qualifying marathon time but did not make the cutoff.

A couple of weeks ago, a new study was released that analyzed pacing data from the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Boston Marathons.

I’m currently working on a longer article about age group winners at the World Major Marathons.

This week, the Boston Athletic Association made a big announcement about registration for the 2027 Boston Marathon: there would be a new lottery for runners who met their qualifying time but missed the cutoff time.

Feature Photo Courtesy Berlin Marathon / (c) SCC Events, Sebastian Wells Earlier this month, an article was published in the research journal Scientific Reports which examined differences in pacing patterns between men and women at the Berlin Marathon.

Feature Image by Acabashi – via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Last summer, I put together a dashboard to track the fastest Six Star Finishers around the world.

I usually reserve these deep dives for the Majors and a handful of other really big races.

The Boston Marathon Cutoff Time Tracker tracks the net change in Boston qualifiers from year to year and that is the main variable used to determine the projected cutoff time.