Summer is always a tough time to be a runner. But in the moment, it can feel terrible – like you’ve never experienced so much heat and humidity in your life. Then, when the weather breaks, it’s all just a fleeting memory. Until summer rolls around again next year. The summer of 2024 certainly had … Read more
Last weekend was the the 2024 Chicago Marathon. Over 52,000 runners hit the streets of Chicago for the race. As I do after each World Marathon Major, I’ve collected the results and analyzed them to see if there are any interesting tidbits. I’ve published a detailed analysis in Runner’s Life, which you can find here. … Read more
Last weekend was the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Marathon. To celebrate the occasion, over 54,000 runners ran the race. As I do after each World Marathon Major, I’ve collected the results and analyzed them to see if there are any interesting tidbits. I’ve published a detailed analysis in Runner’s Life, which you can find … Read more
Many runners have strong opinions about Boston’s qualifying times and their selection process. People will inevitably complain that it’s unfair for one group or another. I recently saw a post in a Facebook group suggesting that the process was unfair for women – and that the new qualifying times would make things more unfair. This … Read more
Featured Image by Claire — CC BY 2.0 This weekend, over 50,000 runners will hit the streets of Berlin to participate in the 50th Berlin Marathon. The race has grown a lot in those 50 years. It started as a small race with a couple hundred runners, and it is now one of the World Marathon Majors … Read more
This week, the Boston Athletic Association officially announced the cutoff time for the 2025 Boston Marathon: 6:51. As they have done in the past, they included with this announcement a collection of data and statistics that tell some of the story of the applicant pool and the field of qualifiers. Absent a full release of … Read more
Note: this article deals with the 2025 Boston Marathon. For the current prediction for the 2026 Boston Marathon, see this article. Friday, the registration period for the 2025 Boston Marathon came to a close. Along with many others, I was eagerly waiting to see if they would release the number of qualified applicants. They didn’t. … Read more
Registration for the 2025 Boston Marathon is drawing to a close, and over the past week I’ve seen a lot of the same questions come up over and over again. It will still be another week or two before acceptances and rejections go out, and it’s likely these same questions will continue to circulate. So … Read more
After a record number of qualified applicants applied to run the Boston Marathon in 2024, there has been plenty of talk about what will happen in 2025. I made a prediction about the cut-off time here (7:03), and I added some additional data and context here. With the registration period under way, runners are eager … Read more
Update: Now that BAA has released the number of applicants, I’ve published a brief follow up here. Last week, I shared a prediction for the 2025 Boston Marathon cut-off time – 7:03. If you haven’t read that article, you may want to read that first to get some context. Since then, I’ve gotten some feedback … Read more