Boston 2022 Cutoff Prediction Thread

The took the entire amount for me too.

Link for you guys:

https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/enter/registration

Applicants will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance in early December once the B.A.A. has verified all qualifying times and applications.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

Link for you guys:

https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/enter/registration

Applicants will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance in early December once the B.A.A. has verified all qualifying times and applications.

Damn. December it is. I'm confidence I'm in, but I'm surprised they're going to take such. Long time. I guess it makes sense. All the majors in 42 days. And usually Boston has months before they start registration. This gives them an extra breather they deserve.

That moment where you get an email from the BAA ...

Argh they should not be sending out any emails other than the cutoff at this point.

AGREEEEED!!! Totally made my heart skip a beat!

You see “B.A.A….” then:

Surprise, “November News!”

Lol

Me too

I thought it was a bit early, too. I thought maybe they got through everything quickly and were sending out acceptance/non-acceptance emails. Nope.

I did notice yesterday that my status went from "Qualifying Time Pending Verification" to "Qualifying Time Verified" yesterday, so if I didn't make the cut, maybe they could save time in the future by sorting applicants by buffer so they're not wasting time verifying people who didn't make it. 🤷‍♂️

Scott64 wrote:

I thought it was a bit early, too. I thought maybe they got through everything quickly and were sending out acceptance/non-acceptance emails. Nope.

I did notice yesterday that my status went from "Qualifying Time Pending Verification" to "Qualifying Time Verified" yesterday, so if I didn't make the cut, maybe they could save time in the future by sorting applicants by buffer so they're not wasting time verifying people who didn't make it. 🤷‍♂️

My guess is they have to verify them all before they can rank them and notify anyone, no matter how secure any given person's buffer seems.

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Mine is still listed as "pending verification."

GettingFasterDude wrote:

My guess is they have to verify them all before they can rank them and notify anyone, no matter how secure any given person's buffer seems.

This is probably it. My time is verified now too.

Random, Possibly Uninteresting Aside: For my race I ran 2:5x:52.4 for my unofficial time on a 3rd party side. I didn't know whether to submit at 52 or 53 (as Letsrun always notes you round up for road times). I consider my time to be 53, but I went with 52 because the official results I could find online had me listed as such on the race results website. Couldn't really argue with that. The BAA verified my time at 53, however. Hope I don't miss out by 1 second, now.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

GettingFasterDude wrote:

My guess is they have to verify them all before they can rank them and notify anyone, no matter how secure any given person's buffer seems.

This is probably it. My time is verified now too.

Random, Possibly Uninteresting Aside: For my race I ran 2:5x:52.4 for my unofficial time on a 3rd party side. I didn't know whether to submit at 52 or 53 (as Letsrun always notes you round up for road times). I consider my time to be 53, but I went with 52 because the official results I could find online had me listed as such on the race results website. Couldn't really argue with that. The BAA verified my time at 53, however. Hope I don't miss out by 1 second, now.

That's a good thought - went to check today and my time was also verified. Registered on Monday and the qualification was Chicago so it should be fairly straightforward as a WMM race.

And yeah there are so many subtleties they don't really clarify - it asked what place you were. Not clear if overall or by gender so I left it blank. I don't think that part mattered.

Getting canned by 1s would be a pain. However it would be rounded up to 53 in your case. All times are rounded up, plus BQ times are always xx:00 never xx:00:01 etc.

Yeah no doubt, I consider the rounded up time to be my PB, so no issue with it for me. I have a friend who submitted the last day and did 2021 NYC and hasn't been verified. So likely they have been doing it on a rolling basis.

I submitted the first day using NYC 2021 time and I'm still listed as Pending Verification as well

I've been verified as well. Praying so so hard that my squeaker 1:10 gets me in :( not feeling super confident though.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

GettingFasterDude wrote:

My guess is they have to verify them all before they can rank them and notify anyone, no matter how secure any given person's buffer seems.

This is probably it. My time is verified now too.

Random, Possibly Uninteresting Aside: For my race I ran 2:5x:52.4 for my unofficial time on a 3rd party side. I didn't know whether to submit at 52 or 53 (as Letsrun always notes you round up for road times). I consider my time to be 53, but I went with 52 because the official results I could find online had me listed as such on the race results website. Couldn't really argue with that. The BAA verified my time at 53, however. Hope I don't miss out by 1 second, now.

What is an "unofficial time on a third party side"?

I would think you'd need an official time, and I don't know what "side" means.

splitter wrote:

What is an "unofficial time on a third party side"?

I would think you'd need an official time, and I don't know what "side" means.

"Site," excuse the spelling. So, it's a bit complicated and I probably didn't explain it well. They used iresultslive (tracking and has decimals/splits). The results posted there look official. Yet the race website used Athlinks as a results links and there the times are rounded down. Anyhow, doesn't really matter, and extremely unlikely to factor.

SlowTwitchLion wrote:

I submitted the first day using NYC 2021 time and I'm still listed as Pending Verification as well

Thought about this a little more and it's almost certainly due to the race being so recent that the NYC organizers are probably working and confirming all the results.

maybe, no way to speculate the way they are doing it, but some people who ran Indianapolis the day before have theirs verified.

Does everyone's Boston 2022 registration say BIB number "coming soon" in the Athletes village app? I'm a 3:24 min buffer and really hoping to make the cut!