Jill Will Run

As I said on Twitter the other day, you are more than welcome to come stay with me and watch it. It really could be a party with you, me and Lindsay. :-) And, like you, I'm sad for the people who will work their asses off to qualify, only to still be shut out because they still weren't "fast enough." I'm fine with never running it - I would not want to do all those long runs in our Boston weather anyway. I'd much rather train for longer distances when it's a bit warmer. It's easier to strip off clothes as you go than to be running through layers and layers of wet clammy clothes. Ugh.

I'm fine with tougher standards, but I dont like the tiered registration so much. Just set an even lower standard if that's what it takes. I need to work harder anyway :)

The only way I'd meet the qualifying times for Boston would be on a bicycle! That said, from what I've read: 1) They probably need to look at the issue of qualifying times generally. Amby Burfoot had a great article in Runner's World a couple years ago about a more rational way the qualifying times could be set. Men's times would be relaxed slightly while younger women would have times tightened and older women would have times relaxed. 2) It does seem truly odd to pitch Boston as a race for elites yet keep 20% of entries for charities, sponsors, promotions. There was a Boston.com post that suggested having two separate marathons--a totally elite marathon for time qualifiers only and then a second marathon for the masses. Is there only one marathon in Boston each year? San Francisco has three.