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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

The qualifying times also vary by age. Three hours would be for the elite or younger crowd. I believe the Masters qualifying was 3:30


17 posted on 10/01/2004 8:14:33 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
These days, you start getting breaks after age 35. Not sure what the situation was then. Kerry was turned 35 in 1979. Now you get only an extra five minutes of cushion when you turn 35.
19 posted on 10/01/2004 8:17:57 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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To: kabar
The qualifying times also vary by age. Three hours would be for the elite or younger crowd. I believe the Masters qualifying was 3:30

The qualifying standards were tougher when Kerry "qualified" for his Boston Marathon in the late 1970s. There still pretty tough, according the the Boston Athletic Association site. For the 2005 Boston Marathon, male runners have to be 45 years-old to slip in with a 3:30 qualifying time. And Kerry, as I mentioned in a previous post, turned 35 in 1979. (And if you believe his biography, he was working 25 hour days in the DA's office while also training for marathons in the late '70s.)

24 posted on 10/01/2004 8:26:32 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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