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Yep, I've heard the same about thru-hiking. Women might be faster at running 2000+ miles than men. It's for efforts measured in minutes or hours that the fastes
by 07d046 8y ago
Yep, I've heard the same about thru-hiking. Women might be faster at running 2000+ miles than men. It's for efforts measured in minutes or hours that the fastest men are faster than the fastest women.
Edit: I wasn't expecting my comments here to be so controversial
- bloomer 8y agoDo you have any source for this? It seems with such a small participation rate for thru-hiking, getting any sort of meaningful data about relative abilities would be unlikely.
- 07d046 8y agoThat's very true, extraordinarily few people are going for fastest times on these, so it's quite speculative. Here's an article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/on-the-longest-hiking-trails-a-woman-finds-equal-footing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/on-the-longest-hik...
- skookumchuck 8y agoWomen tend to be lighter than men, which likely makes a difference.