Boilermaker and Beyond

While the Boilermaker registration transfer process is not complete that might ‘tweak’ some (it ends June 22^nd) numbers, some interesting statistics have come out concerning this year’s field.

There are 48 states and DC that are represented; Hawaii and Iowa are currently not coming. Last year we had six from Iowa and three from Hawaii; for 2011 South Dakota was our lone holdout. Perhaps we’ll have runners get a racing bib via the transfer system or we get walkers from these two states. In a future blog I’ll reveal the top states.

There are four counties visiting: Canada (a traditional powerhouse with hundreds of runners), Spain, Grenada, and the Virgin Islands. This number will grow as the elite athlete field becomes clear.

For the 15k: 51% are men and 49% are women.

In the 5k: 61% are women and 39% are men.

Finally, in the Walk: 69% are women and 31% are men.  This percentage could change dramatically as we allow signups up to Walk day.

If we look at age/ gender breakout our highest percentages are:

15k: 25-29 year old females at 9%

5k: 25-29 year old females at 7.6%

The Walk: 55-59 year old females at 10.6%

While I need to do some more research this might be the first year we see more females than males as participants.