New Boston Marathon qualification standards

go to ....letsrun.com.... for full details but the boston marathon are giving the fastest runners an early chance to enter, also the standards are getting tougher....for someone who trained and raced to try for BM qualifier in the late 1970's this new standard is great, it returns the race for what it should be a "regular" runners olympics and gives the fastest runners an edge over slower runners in getting in. I never made the qualifer, only ran 3:07 as a 21 year old. My brother made it as a masters running 3:09 at age 40.