They also haven’t announced new qualifying standards yet, although they’ve hinted that there will be some. My guess is that a 3:05 will still probably get you into the race but until new standards are announced (or that the current standards will stay in place another year) I can’t say whether that would be fast enough to get in anyway.

I will say that your 3:05 last May is fast enough to get you into the Ganssett Marathon, which takes place 2 days before Boston a few hours south of there in Naragansset, Rhode Island.

You can get the details about that race here:
http://www.gansettmarathon.com/

You should be okay. The qualifying times for Boston are usually good for about a year and a half; for 2010, you only needed to run your BQ after September 27, 2008.

My guess is that the cut-off date for 2011 will be September 26, 2009, so any race after that day should qualify. I may be off as much as a week, but it will be right around then, and your February 2010 races will definitely count.

Congratulations!

http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=18335

I got my BQ last year in Philadelphia and still had enough time to register for the 2009 race. It would have been really disappointing to have to wait 17 months to run in Boston after working so hard and finally qualifying.

I expect the 2011 race to fill up during the first week next year. Eventually they are going to be forced to make some changes. Something similar to what New York does may work the best. That is, the top times can register and everyone else can only register via a lottery. The current BQ standards would still apply. To me that would be a better way to go than to increase the field size or lower the BQ standards.