Boston filled up quickly even with the age and gender qualifying standards. From RW Online…
Boston is Closed!
10/18/2010 7:12 PM
By Peter Vigneron
Runners with fleet feet but slow fingers are out of luck: registration for the 2011 Boston Marathon, which opened Monday morning at 9 a.m., is already closed.
“We knew it would be quick, but we had no way to predict how quick,” said Guy Morse, executive director of the Boston Athletic Association.
Organizers closed online signup at 5:03 p.m. on Monday, the briefest marathon-registration period in Boston Marathon history. Registration for the 2010 race closed in November, 2009, and was open for over two months. In years past, runners could often expect to gain entry until the day before the race.
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