Boston Athletic Association Fractures Its Funny Bone
As part of the general hijinks for April Fools’ Day, an unknown comic posted a phony Boston Athletic Association web site that announced all Boston Marathon qualifying times would be reduced by 10 minutes, making it a more difficult task to enter the race. A decent prank, aimed at a specific audience, and hardly one to cause much distress among the general public.
The Boston Athletic Association did not appreciate the humor, however, unleashing its attorneys on the faux site. Even worse, the site was taken down before I could get a screen capture of its contents.
So here’s to you, BAA. I guess if you ran this web site, it would have to be called Running Is Not Funny At All.
Even though it was an April Fool’s Day joke, I really wouldn’t be surprised if the BAA tinkers with its qualifying times given that the race reached capacity in mid-November, months earlier than anticipated. I’m going this year, and for all I know it cold be my first and last Boston because who knows if I’ll ever run fast enough to BQ again.
I totally got dupped by that yesterday and almost had a heart attack!
Running is serious business. You better not smile as you line up for your next race, especially if it’s Boston, or the race officials will DQ you faster than Usain Bolt can run 100 meters.