What is the female equivalent of a a sub 6 mile?
What is the female equivalent of a a sub 6 mile?
6:46.9 (mastersathletics.net) Assuming 25 years of age
Not an exact science, but 10% is roughly the differential between men's and women's world records at a range of distances from 100 m to marathon. That would be 6:36. 15% might be a real world differential, accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training than men at the hobby jogger level - or that drugs have benefited women more than men at the WR level. Adding 15% would be 6:54.
Coacher wrote:
What is the female equivalent of a a sub 6 mile?
Equivalent to what/who?
Time and distance do not change regardless of gender. Gender equality people! A 6 minute mile is a six minute mile, he, she, xe, etc.
well the male equivilant would tipically be a dom 6 min mile, unless your into some bdsm dominatrix time sh*t, in which case the female equivilant would be a dom 6 min mile.
I personally am dom not sub
5:59=5:59
A 6:00 mile is not a masculine or male performance by definition. A female running 6:00 has just done exactly a 6 minute mile. The performance is what it is regardless of who runs it. However, I believe you're intending to ask:
What time could someone female run that would be equivalent to a male running 6 flat.
6:39, maybe 6:40
Coacher wrote:
What is the female equivalent of a a sub 6 mile?
6 mins. The stopwatch runs at the same speed for males and females on planet earth.
zzzz wrote:
Not an exact science, but 10% is roughly the differential between men's and women's world records at a range of distances from 100 m to marathon. That would be 6:36. 15% might be a real world differential, accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training than men at the hobby jogger level - or that drugs have benefited women more than men at the WR level. Adding 15% would be 6:54.
Equal percentage slower than the world record gives us 6:47.48.
I suspect both El Guerrouj and Masterkova of doping. On the other hand, I suspect both Kiprop and Muir of being clean and their 1500 times aren't too far behind, so the world records are on okay place to start I'd say.
Having said this, who cares?
zzzz wrote:
Not an exact science, but 10% is roughly the differential... That would be 6:36. 15% might be a real world differential, accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training...
I agree with this accounting of it. Women typically perform about 10% slower than men. I don't think using the world record percentages is very accurate if you're looking for a female equivalent. Now if I had to compare myself to a female and there was an age difference I would probably look to age grading, which does use world record results. Perhaps this is inconsistent of me, but I do believe in the data that shows roughly a 10% decline in performance, but once we aren't comparing same ages I think you need to go to age grading.
bdsmmmmm wrote:
well the male equivilant would tipically be a dom 6 min mile, unless your into some bdsm dominatrix time sh*t, in which case the female equivilant would be a dom 6 min mile.
I personally am dom not sub
That was a lot of work for a pretty pathetic dad joke.
zzzz wrote:
accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training than men at the hobby jogger level
care to expand on this? less competitive? yeah, you're right ... probably because we're so worried out uteruses will fall out!
5:59
zzzz wrote:
Not an exact science, but 10% is roughly the differential between men's and women's world records at a range of distances from 100 m to marathon. That would be 6:36. 15% might be a real world differential, accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training than men at the hobby jogger level - or that drugs have benefited women more than men at the WR level. Adding 15% would be 6:54.
It's 11% dumas.
Coacher wrote:
What is the female equivalent of a a sub 6 mile?
Judging by world records, one would state women tend to be app. 10% slower than men. This is not necessarily fair. The most elite women runners tend to have narrower hips than the average woman. Elite women runners are smaller in the chest than the average woman. If we go by high school PE class, the last time all able body persons, male and female were forced to run, the male female difference is about 15%.
umm what wrote:
zzzz wrote:
accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training than men at the hobby jogger level
care to expand on this? less competitive? yeah, you're right ... probably because we're so worried out uteruses will fall out!
Nope, not that. Just an observation of many things. In local level races, and the number of men close to the winner vs. the number of women close to the winner, where close to could be defined with a percentage and analyzed if needed.
From numerous threads in LR, it can be determined that girls and women on high school and college cross country teams do less training mileage on average. For example, CoachJoanHunter in this thread:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8633226&page=6I know there are plenty of exceptions. When I was in high school, the girls team trained more and harder than the boys. The girls ran 70 mpw in the summer, and won the Norcal State championship.
I like women runners, and support women going for their goals. I don't think I have a bias. There are women that train just as hard as men. They are just fewer in number.
Let's see.
Most guys in the US would be happy with a 6 minute mile. Most can't achieve that without a lot of hard work they are not willing to put in. But a 6 minute mile is not something anyone would brag to strangers about, but some of their friends might be impressed. If a woman had a 6 minute mile to her name it would impress more people and it's arguably worth bragging about it.
So I would say a 6 minute mile is roughly the equivalent of Pam from the Office.
Run007xx wrote:
zzzz wrote:
Not an exact science, but 10% is roughly the differential between men's and women's world records at a range of distances from 100 m to marathon. That would be 6:36. 15% might be a real world differential, accounting for a bit less competitiveness/training than men at the hobby jogger level - or that drugs have benefited women more than men at the WR level. Adding 15% would be 6:54.
It's 11% dumas.
No need to be rude about it, azzhole. I did say roughly 10%. 11% is bit better to use, I admit.
If you want more precision, here are the differences between some of the WRs:
100 9.5%
200 11.2%
400 10.6%
800 12.3%
1500 11.7%
mile 13.2%
3000 10.3%
5000 12.4%
10000 11.4%
half marathon 11.1%
marathon 10.1%
The average of those is 11.25%
There's no trend of differences changing with distance, so the weakest women's record relative to the men's is the mile. That's why using a straight percentage back from the respective WRs is more generous for the women's mile.