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The article isn’t about pure time, it’s about overall endurance over time. Women tend to finish ultramarathons at a higher rate than men, but not typically fast
by MOARDONGZPLZ 3y ago
The article isn’t about pure time, it’s about overall endurance over time. Women tend to finish ultramarathons at a higher rate than men, but not typically faster than men.
- uean 3y agoBarkley has a time cutoff so I think the point is valid.
- kalind 3y agoSo to answers the OP's question: the reason she's the first woman to finish isn't necessarily because of bias or sexism, but could rather be simply because of the very challenging time limit, and the fact that the women's world record ultra times are around 10-15% slower than the men's on all distances from 50k up to 6 days (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon)
- gcanyon 3y agoIf you take that 10-15% number seriously, then her finish is a (graded) course record by a healthy margin.
- votepaunchy 3y agoHer 59:58 is 15.2% longer than the course record of 52:03.
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