How one can qualify and register for the 2022 Boston Marathon

After final yr’s postponement and eventual cancellation, runners have been overjoyed to be again on the Boston Marathon, which occurred on Monday. Mark your calendars, as a result of in 2022, the race will return to its common spot on Patriot’s Day, the third Monday in April – particularly, Monday, April 18. Right here’s what you want to know if you happen to’re hoping to race.

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The B.A.A. lately introduced that the qualification window for Boston 2022 opened on Sept. 1, 2019. Registration will happen between Nov. 8 and Nov. 12, and any qualifying time run between Sept. 1, 2019 and Nov. 12, 2021 shall be thought-about.

Contemplating the dearth of races in 2020, because of this most qualifiers can have earned their BQ at one of many last marathons held earlier than the pandemic shutdown in early 2020, i.e. fall 2019, or probably at this yr’s Boston Marathon. That would appear to successfully scale back the variety of qualifiers, which could anticipate to make cutoff time (i.e., the “actual” qualifying time, which has been quicker than the official qualifying time nearly yearly since 2012) nearer to the official qualifying time. Nevertheless, the sector measurement was additionally diminished to twenty,000 in 2021, and the B.A.A. has not but indicated what the sector measurement shall be for 2022. The cutoff time for 2021 was 7:47 – the best it’s ever been, leading to greater than 9,000 “certified” runners being denied entry. Hopefully the cutoff for 2022 shall be significantly decrease.

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Listed below are the time requirements for official qualification. Your age is taken into account to be the age you’ll be on race day.