Sat
Oct
24
From the “Yes, Boston Has Gone Soft” camp: a blogger named Jim Hansen, who wrote a recent post titled Back When You Had to Really Qualify for Boston. Hansen, who’s been running long enough to remember when “you had to break 2:50 if you wanted a spot on the starting line in Hopkinton,” recalls finally doing just that, back in 1981.
“And another thing, triathletes? More like trinonathletes! You call a 2 mile swim athletic?!”