Will I run Boston 2026?

Post by mmargenot » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 8:21 PM UTC

rconti wrote: post #5

Context: There's a limit on how many people can run the Boston Marathon. To qualify to "run Boston", you have to run another marathon in a qualifying time[1], prior to applying. For example, the qualifying time for a male 40-44 is 3h05m. For a female of the same age, 3h35. Non-binary, 3h35. You submit your application and qualifying race and time, and then some time _later_, based on the number applications received…

Post by Guillaume86 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 8:50 AM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #16

Why does the cutoff get smaller with increasing qualified runners? I would have expected the opposite.

Post by Brendinooo » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 11:23 AM UTC

steadyelk wrote: post #40

Brendinooo wrote: post #28

Your site looks interesting but your terms of service seem really onerous. That stopped me from finishing the signup process. My running data is deeply personal; it's tied to my health metrics and contains years of location patterns around my daily life. So when I see stuff like "irrevocable, sublicensable" rights to all of my running data...that's a lot to give up for a company and product I know very little about.…

Firstly, thanks for reading the ToS and for raising your concern. Not that it means much, but our goal is not to screw over our users. This is the first time someone has raised an issue with the ToS. We understand how personal user fitness data is, which is why we’ve tried our best to leave data in the control of the users. A first step was to make sure that users actually see the ToS, and we require all users to scr…