112th Boston Marathon - wish I hadn't missed 111 of them (Read 961 times)

BD,TM: Yo, go to bed, you geeks BD: Now that you're a real old fart, at 45 yo, qualifying time is only like 3:25. You could do that next week!

On the clock, did they keep readjusting the time for the start waves as they rolled by, or do they set it to one time and leave it at that?

I'm not sure to be honest, but I know the ladies were checking their watches as they passed. I don't know if the scooter that showed up to change it would have if the time was correct to begin with. I would THINK the intent would be to show the time for the elite women until they passed then switch to the time for the elite men. I think the time on the finish line clock shows the elite men's time, so it would be way off in the finisher's pics for the folks from the last wave. If you look at the pics of the elite men's pack, it appears that the "official vehicle" to the left carries a clock for them. I didn't notice that as they passed but it does look like a digital display.

Ed, You'll qualify in the Lowell marathon in October, no? I think you can get a qualifying time there; you mentioned it was relatively flat. I think I'll do the half that day.

That's the current pipedream. I have to take 16 minutes off my first, so it's a stretch goal. It would be great to have you on the course, and a lot of Good Times/Greater Lowell Roadrunners will be working it. That can only help.