Three more NL RUNNERS enjoyed 26.2 miles of Florida sunshine on Saturday.
Completing the Gasparilla Tampa Bay Marathon were George Blackwood (3:30:59), Wayne Baggs (3:48:43) and Marie Baggs (3:59:46).
George squeaked in with a Boston qualifier time, and Marie was 2nd in her age group.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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Hello
Just wanted to pass on that Marie Baggs came THIRD in her age group; congratulations Marie!
Also, my chip time initially posted on the Gasparilla (Tampa) marathon website immediately after the race (early afternoon of the marathon finish) was 3:31:01; clock time, 3:31:13.
My final chip/clock times posted on the Tampa race website:
http://results.active.com/pages/page.jsp?eventID=1450100
are recorded as 3:30:59/3:31:11. So they've either posted a corrected result or adjusted it downwards by two seconds.
By the way, its apparently Boston's policy to accept individuals whose chip times are 1-2 minutes in excess of their 'offical' qualifying (chip) times; I've spoken to both Joe Ryan and Wayne Baggs regarding this. Wayne was 42 seconds over his official qualifying standard (3:35:59) the first time he qualified for Boston, and Joe was ~90 seconds over his qualifying time the seventh or eighth time he qualified. However, after contacting Boston
they were both told that anyone finishing 1-2 minutes in excess of their official qualifying standard would be accepted, and in fact they were. I verified this myself with Boston after seeing my initial chip time to verify that this was still their current policy.
So Tampa appears to have posted corrected/updated results or kindly adjusted my time downwards, and I've just made the official standard under the wire.
Quite a thrill.
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