89 Seacoast runners named

Seacoast Online has published a local entry list for the 2026 Boston Marathon, naming 90 runners from Seacoast New Hampshire and southern York County, Maine. (seacoastonline.com) The roundup says those runners are scheduled to compete on Monday, April 20, when the 130th Boston Marathon is set for Patriots’ Day. The Boston Athletic Association lists April 20, 2026, as this year’s race date. (seacoastonline.com) (baa.org) Seacoast Online’s list includes each runner’s hometown, age and qualifying time, turning a global race into a local roster for Portsmouth, Exeter, Dover, York and nearby towns. The article also highlights the fastest, youngest and oldest runners in the Seacoast group. (seacoastonline.com) That local tally lands as Boston remains one of the hardest marathons to enter. The Boston Athletic Association said qualifiers for the 2026 race needed to run 4 minutes, 34 seconds faster than their age-group standard to get accepted. (baa.org) The Boston Athletic Association also said it received 33,249 qualifier applications and accepted 24,362 of them for the 2026 race. Another 6,000 entries are reserved for charity runners, bringing the field to about 30,000 participants. (baa.org) (wickedlocal.com) Boston tightened its standards before this cycle. The association said in June 2025 that official qualifying times for most age groups under 60 were reduced by five minutes for the 2026 race. (baa.org) The race itself still follows the same 26.2-mile route from Hopkinton to Boylston Street in Boston, with division starts staggered through the morning. The Boston Athletic Association’s athlete information page and race page list the course and event details for 2026. (baa.org 1) (baa.org 2) For Seacoast runners, the compilation is a snapshot of who made it through the tighter cutoff and will be on the starting line next week. By Patriots’ Day, those hometown names will be part of a field drawn from all 50 states and countries around the world. (seacoastonline.com) (wickedlocal.com)