Last night I felt like I was dealing with the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld fame. Since I have a job (well, two at this time of year), and we are crazy busy right now, I did not have more than perhaps a spare minute with an internet connection from 7am yesterday, until I got home after 6pm. Since I also had a meeting from 7-9pm, I didn't have time to try to enter the Boston Marathon before 7pm. After I got home from the meeting, I went to the registration page to find that the registration had closed!
It turns out that the marathon field was filled between 9am, when the registration opened and 5:03pm. Last year it took two months to fill, and that happened just a few days before I ran my qualifier in Philadelphia, so I wasn't able to enter in 2010.
Now, there was no registration available, except during the work day. Perhaps if unemployment were not so high, there would have been a chance for working stiffs to register.
This is quite disappointing. I was hoping to run Boston again while Chelsea is still in school there, perhaps as my last "real" marathon (as opposed to recreational marathon), but now it looks as though I will have to qualify again in order to do so.
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I heard about that. Boston seems to be growing rather bloated.
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