{"id":29082,"date":"2018-09-28T02:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=29082"},"modified":"2018-09-28T02:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T06:37:35","slug":"september-28-2018-an-arrogance-humbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=29082","title":{"rendered":"September 28, 2018 – An Arrogance Humbled"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had previously decided not to submit my BQ time for the Boston Marathon… arrogantly believing that I even stood a chance to get in.<\/p>\n

The Boston Athletic Association just released the details of the submissions and they are… humbling to say the least.\u00a0 You needed to run 4 minutes and 58 seconds FASTER than the qualifying time to get in.\u00a0 I did not do that in the last year.<\/p>\n

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Runners World did a chart breakdown of the last few years differentials between qualifying time and actual needed time to get in.<\/p>\n

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The variance this year was so great that the BAA has revised the qualifying times for 2020 and beyond. They’ve shaved another 5 minutes for each age bracket BQ which means at a minimum I’d need to run a 3:10 to get a BQ from here on out. And that… is unlikely. My PR is 3:02:25 but that was a long, long time ago… and my average times keep creeping up.<\/p>\n

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They say the sun never sets on a legend… but it certainly sets on a mortal.<\/p>\n

And today I was reminded once again how merely mortal I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had previously decided not to submit my BQ time for the Boston Marathon… arrogantly believing that I even stood a chance to get in. The Boston Athletic Association just released the details of the submissions and they are… humbling to say the least.\u00a0 You needed to run 4 minutes and 58 seconds FASTER than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}