Who is the heaviest person you know of (or have ever heard of) to qualify for Boston?
I weigh 190 and ran a 3:03
What did I win? I hope its candy!!!
I’m at 230 lbs currently. Haven’t qualified for Boston (yet!) I haven’t really ran any races training for IMFL but my last 10k was 39 min and I think I could do 1:27-28 half mary. Signed up for a half in Dec and a full in Feb. Not at all saying I will qualify but I think I could get very close this year
I’m at 230 lbs currently. Haven’t qualified for Boston (yet!) I haven’t really ran any races training for IMFL but my last 10k was 39 min and I think I could do 1:27-28 half mary. Signed up for a half in Dec and a full in Feb. Not at all saying I will qualify but I think I could get very close this year
Wow, sub :40 at 230lbs…what are you, like 6’8"?
You give me hope, dude…what is your running background?
Who is the heaviest person you know of (or have ever heard of) to qualify for Boston?
My roommate ran a 2:42 at Boston, a 3:12 at IM Louisville and a 3:07 at Kona, all in 2011 at 6’0’’ 190ish pounds.
I ran cross country in high school (10+ years ago). I was athletic as a teen but after school got lazy and fat. Started running 3 years ago at 270ish lbs (honestly found that I didn’t weigh myself much then). There’s a local marathon for breast cancer (the 26.2 with donna) in Jacksonville Beach that got me started running again after my mother was diagnosed with the disease. She’s since beaten it but my dad and I will run it every year, this will be our third. I ran something like 3:53 my first, and 3:2x last year. If everything goes perfect this year I could go sub 3:05. If it doesn’t go perfect, it should be a glorious explosion around mile 22.
FWIW I’m 6’4". Never focused on losing weight really just running. Now I’m focused on losing weight before IMFL. Hopefully lose atleast 10 lbs before Nov 2nd
Michael Henze, 40, Neenah, WI. Henze is the Plant Controller for a packing company, and is relatively new to ultrarunning. Henze once weighed over 300 pounds before taking up running and dropping over 1/3 of his body weight. Since taking up long distances he has never finished worse than 2nd in an ultramarathon race. In June 2009 he won and broke the course record at the FANS 24-Hour with 147.41 miles.
He also was a Team USA member and ran 154.5 miles in 24 hrs in 2010.
I believe he was about 195lbs when he set the record and can run a sub 3 mary easily at 230lbs.
I’m at 230 lbs currently. Haven’t qualified for Boston (yet!) I haven’t really ran any races training for IMFL but my last 10k was 39 min and I think I could do 1:27-28 half mary. Signed up for a half in Dec and a full in Feb. Not at all saying I will qualify but I think I could get very close this year
A 1:27 half at 230 pounds?!
Is this a downhill half/flat
Not to single you out just would be shocked to see a person 230 pounds run 6:39(ish) min miles for 13.1
I saw a dude pushing 50 easily weighing 200 lbs run a 3:05. He was jacked like He-man and an ex-NHL player, so huge athletic base, and freaky genetics helped.
I’m at 230 lbs currently. Haven’t qualified for Boston (yet!) I haven’t really ran any races training for IMFL but my last 10k was 39 min and I think I could do 1:27-28 half mary. Signed up for a half in Dec and a full in Feb. Not at all saying I will qualify but I think I could get very close this year
A 1:27 half at 230 pounds?!
Is this a downhill half/flat
Not to single you out just would be shocked to see a person 230 pounds run 6:39(ish) min miles for 13.1
It’s cool that’s the reaction I usually get 
I live in FL so they’re flat courses. Most recent Half was last Dec at 240lbs I went 1:32. I did a 15k in March with a bridge at mile 8 with 6% grade (that’s a lot for FL people) in 1:02 between 235-240lbs
Even a flat half at 240lbs going 1:32 is pretty amazing, nice work.
BTW see your racing IMFL, what do you anticipate your marathon time to be??
This forum’s Macho Grande is somewhere between 200 and 210 I reckon and he qualifies for Boston regularly.
I’m at 230 lbs currently. Haven’t qualified for Boston (yet!) I haven’t really ran any races training for IMFL but my last 10k was 39 min and I think I could do 1:27-28 half mary. Signed up for a half in Dec and a full in Feb. Not at all saying I will qualify but I think I could get very close this year
A 1:27 half at 230 pounds?!
Is this a downhill half/flat
Not to single you out just would be shocked to see a person 230 pounds run 6:39(ish) min miles for 13.1
I live in the sticks so not large fields but we have a guy that shows up at local running races from time to time who kind of looks like a skinny Tony Soprano, but a skinny Tony Soprano is still fat! I’d guess he weighs somewhere around that weight and again isn’t even built, he’s just plain big-boned & fat, and at least for 5Ks he’s running somewhere in that ballpark. He usually wins these local races when he shows up.
I’m 47, 6’0", usually weigh somewhere between 200 and 210, and am pretty lean at that weight. Former wrestler, rugby player, and lifeguard. I weighed 209 going into IM-Lake Placid. I qualified for Boston at the Buffalo Marathon in May, but just barely (3:24:56), as I hadn’t run anything more than 14 miles at that point in my training for Placid. Did it on a lark in hopes of being part of Boston 2014. Properly trained to the distance, my PR is 3:15:42 . . .
All that being said, I’ll do my 3rd IM next year (Louisville) and am working to get my weight down to around 190. For me, that would be maximally lean. Just trying to eat more fruits and veggies, smaller portions, less ice cream, fewer big meals late, after my second workout of the day. Problem is, I’ve always used my marathon and tri training as an excuse to continue eating like a ravenous 14 year old . . .
I think it all depends on the person, their genetics, their build, and what they are used to carrying . . .
Just trying to eat more fruits and veggies, smaller portions, less ice cream, fewer big meals late, after my second workout of the day. Problem is, I’ve always used my marathon and tri training as an excuse to continue eating like a ravenous 14 year old . . .
Egads, man! Less ice cream? That’s positively uncivilized!!!
-Fellow ice cream lover
A better question is who has the highest BMI to qualify for boston (with out being elderly or female, where the standard becomes very lax)
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Even a flat half at 240lbs going 1:32 is pretty amazing, nice work.
BTW see your racing IMFL, what do you anticipate your marathon time to be??
It’s my first IM so I’m trying my best to not get too caught up in times. That said I’d like to see anything under 4 hours. Hopefully this damn heat and humidity we have in FL right now will die down. It’s hanging around longer than normal
A better question is who has the highest BMI to qualify for boston (with out being elderly or female, where the standard becomes very lax)
I’m not sure what you mean by lax? BMI categories are the same for all adults. At any given BMI a female and especially an elderly person is more likely to have more fat/less lean tissue as compared to the population as a whole, and especially as compared to young, athletic men.
I was FAT and OLD when I qualified 4 years ago for Boston.
Ran 3:33 to qualify for the 50-54 year old male bracket. I was 6’4" and 203 lbs at the start.
203lbs at 6’4" is not fat by any standards, man.