Published October 18, 2010

Registration for the 2011 Boston Marathon closed on the same day it opened.

The Boston Athletic Association website, so clogged with people trying to register for the 2011 Boston Marathon, has crashed. The normal website has been replaced with a text-only page, which tells visitors the registration period has ended — on the same day it began.

“The Boston Marathon does not have a waiting list, late registration on race weekend, or race day registration,” the website says.

Last year, the Globe reports, it took two months for registration to fill up. Some 23,000 runners started, and nearly all of them finished.

The BAA will soon publicize the names and bib numbers of all the crazy people who signed up.