FAQ

After you submit your application, you'll receive an e-mail confirming that we've received your application. Verification of your qualified time can then take up to five weeks as the results from your qualifying race are verified.

Once we verify your time, you'll receive a second e-mail that confirms your entrance into the Boston Marathon.

If you improve your qualifying time from the time you used to register, please send the name and date of the marathon at which you improved your time, by February 1st, with your updated time to registration@baa.org.

Once verified, it'll be applied to your entry.   Registrations cannot be updated after February 1, 2013.

The BibTag timing system will enable you to receive your official time (time from the starter's gun), as well as your net running time. The BibTag is affixed to your bib number and must be worn on your outer layer for the entire race for you to be scored and timed and for you to appear among the results as an official finisher.

Please handle the tag with care, as bent or damaged tags may not work correctly.

 

Check Marathon Tours for a list of hotels that offer special rates and for the distance they are from the finish line. The official airline of the Boston Marathon is jetBlue, and in the months leading up to the Marathon, registered runners receive promotional codes for discounted jetting to Boston. Please visit www.marathontours.com, and www.jetblue.com.

Registrants of the 2012 B.A.A. Half Marathon should receive their bib number in the mail by October 3, 2012. If you do not receive your bib number by this date, send a detailed e-mail to halfregistration@baa.org.

If you are changing your address between now and the Half Marathon on October 7, please let the B.A.A. know, so your bib number is sent to your correct location.

If your Number Pick Up Card does not reach you before race weekend, please be sure to bring a photo ID with you to Number Pick-Up at the John Hancock Sports and Fitness Expo located at the Hynes Convention Center. Go to the "Replacement Number Pick-Up Cards" booth near number pick-up, show your valid photo id, and a volunteer will print a new card for you. You will use that new card to pick up your number.

Locations along the course that are close to MBTA subway stations are:

• Kenmore Square (Green lines B,C, and D): One-mile-to-go marker
• Woodland (Green line D): Mile 16.8 of the Marathon course
• Boston College (Green line B): Mile 21.4 of the Marathon course
• Cleveland Circle (Green line C): mile 22.4 of the Marathon course

The MBTA's Commuter Rail Line (Framingham/Worcester) also makes stops along the Route in Framingham, West Natick, Natick, Wellesley Square and Wellesley Hills. For more information on watching the race, pick up a Spectator's Guide at local hotels or the Marathon Information Kiosk in Copley Square Park on race weekend.

Deferment to the 2013 Boston marathon applies to official entrants (including charity runners or other waiver runners) ONLY, who claimed their bib number packet at the John Hancock Sports & Fitness Expo through Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the Seaport World Trade Center in South Boston.

RULES FOR DEFERMENT:

• Runners must claim their bib number for deferment to be an option.  
• In order to receive a deferment for 2013, race participants may NOT start the race. 
• No refund for the 2012 entry will be given.  All entry fees for 2013 must be paid.

A prize money total of $806,000 is awarded in equal amounts to men and women as follows:

Top 15 men and women ($150,000 for first place to $1,500 for 15th place, for a total of $353,000 each for men and women).

Top 5 men and women in the 40-and-over division ($10,000 for first place to $1,000 for 5th place, for a total of $20,000 each for men and women).

Top 10 men and women in the wheelchair division ($15,000 for first place to $500 for 10th place, for a total of $30,000 each for men and women).