I often feel as if I could do the entire job of demonstrating the ingrained, purposeful failure of a lot of the goons I cover here by providing links to two seemingly unrelated stories by the same writer and observing nothing more than, “The same mind somehow produced both of these—
Is there a Contact Kevin link somewhere? Anyhow... "Runners hoping to get into the 2021 Boston Marathon needed to be 7 minutes, 47 seconds faster than the qualifying standard" 14,609 qualifiers were allowed in, about 65% of the field, which is down from the usual ~80%. Why the BAA protects charity runners at the expense of qualifiers (see also: 2014) is left as an exercise for the student.
Is there a Contact Kevin link somewhere? Anyhow... "Runners hoping to get into the 2021 Boston Marathon needed to be 7 minutes, 47 seconds faster than the qualifying standard" 14,609 qualifiers were allowed in, about 65% of the field, which is down from the usual ~80%. Why the BAA protects charity runners at the expense of qualifiers (see also: 2014) is left as an exercise for the student.