TXRunner Girl wrote:
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still unfair wrote:
Doesn't change the fact that the women's standards are way easier to hit than the men's standards.
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for men maybe, but for women the standard is as difficult as the corresponding one for men.
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No, the women's standards are way too easy. My wife is 30 minutes under her standard and she is 41. Why do women get an extra 30 minutes (over 1 min per mile slower)? Women are supposed to be better endurance athletes. So a women running a 3:45 is supposed to be equivalent to a guy running 3:15? I don't think so. The world records are 12 minutes apart (2:03 versus 2:15). It should be no more than 26 minutes (1 min per mile) and even that is a generous cushion. Look at the US Oly Marathon Trials standards. The women's A standard has been historically less than 30 minutes slower then the men. 2:36 or 2:39 versus 2:19 (only standard for men) for the last trials. The women kept a B standard to encourage more women to try since historically it has been a male dominated sport, at the elite level, but women's participation numbers now exceed men's.