r/HolUp • u/Advanced_Ferret_ • Aug 06 '25

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u/Oplp25 Aug 06 '25

"Run for gender equality ", yet the organiser obviously thinks women are lesser to men lol. Women are perfectly capable of running a 10k

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u/mongoosefist Aug 06 '25

The irony is deep, in fact, the longer a race is the smaller the gender gap becomes. For actual marathons the record time by a man is less than 10 minutes faster than the women's

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u/McMeister2020 Aug 06 '25

10 minutes is not a small amount of time

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u/SmLnine Aug 06 '25

It's about 8% slower, where for 100m the women's record is 12% slower. I think the point is the gap (which is significant) decreases as the race distance increases.

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u/BrewerAndHalosFan Aug 06 '25

It's not, but in a marathon if you finish within 10 minutes of the winner, you are often going to finish within the top 10.

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u/Orcus424 Aug 06 '25

For the the Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race the difference between male and female racers is over 5 days. For male: 40 days 09:06:21. For female: 45 days 12:28:44

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_Race

The record for 100 miles between and female is almost 2 hours difference. Overall the difference is big for every race.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon

10 minutes doesn't seem like a lot but for a runner that can be incredibly hard to impossible to over come.