Day Six is still the same question with a louder clock. The Boston Athletic Association's entrant and finish architecture is public enough to identify the 80-plus cohort size, but race-week, age-stratified medical outcomes are still not publicly posted in a way clinicians or policy analysts can audit. [1]

The paper's Day Five brief argued this was no longer a "wait for final recap" issue. That argument strengthens today because the denominator has always been available and the event's own medical-system narrative is already being told in high detail, including triage logistics and staffing design. [2] The missing piece remains cohort-level outcomes.

MSM and X continue to diverge on what counts as race completion. MSM's dominant frame is still elite times and podium narratives. X's running-medicine lane keeps pressing for operational disclosure: encounters, disposition, and heat/cold protocol outcomes by age band. The paper remains with that second frame. In an aging-runners era, transparency about 80-plus medical outcomes is not voyeurism. It is service journalism with direct public-health value.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago