Running

Boston Marathon Qualifying Times (With Historical Standards)

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For distance runners, three letters carry more weight than almost any medal: BQ. A Boston Qualifier, a marathon time fast enough to apply for the Boston Marathon, is the sport’s great amateur ambition, the standard against which hundreds of thousands of runners measure their training. And the bar keeps moving: the Boston Athletic Association tightened … Read more

Running World Records by Distance: Men’s and Women’s

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From the explosive 9.58-second sprint to the gut-wrenching marathon, the world records in running represent the absolute limits of human speed and endurance. They are set by the fastest people who have ever lived, and a few of them have stood untouched for decades while others fall almost every year. So what are the running … Read more