Supposing you met a woman who had just ran a marathon, what time would be legitimately respectable to you?
Supposing you met a woman who had just ran a marathon, what time would be legitimately respectable to you?
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Sub 4, still means she runs enough to be halfway decent and she most likely goes on daily runs.
+1
3:10=7:15 per mile pace
Nina Kuscsik won Boston in 3:10 in 72
3:10 is the 30 year old woman age graded equivalent of a 18:00 5k for a 20 year old man (71%), so I'd say no. It's probably respectable to the average non-runner/hobbyjogger, but anyone who ran competitively wouldn't be impressed by anything over 2:50 for women, or 80% on the AG scale.
I wouldnt respect any woman that couldn't break 3 hours. I don't want no slow kids as my offspring.
3:10 is the 30 year old woman age graded equivalent of a 18:00 5k for a 20 year old man (71%)
it isn't immediately obvious why you think it appropriate to compare a woman's marathon with a man's 5km, or a 30-year-old woman with a 20-year-old man, but the expression, "apples and oranges," springs to mind.
it is a relatively simple matter to compare women's marathon times with men's, all you have to do is collect the top 100 men and women over the last ten years, average their times, and compare them. which is what I did, and based on this analysis women's times are around 85.37% those of equivalent men. so, a woman's 3:00 marathon is equivalent to around 2:34 for a man.
if you prefer a picture, I link below to a chart I produced on which the pale blue line represents the women's performances and the dark blue line is the men. the red line is what the equivalent male performance would be when a woman runs sub-3, and the green line is the average of all the values on the red line up to that point.
cheers.
https://pix.sfly.com/jjfAGXA 3 hour marathon female time is closer to a 2:45 marathon male time based on age graded times at 30 years old.
My question is, 'what is the relevance of this question?'. I ask because, as a poster on LetsRun, you are clearly unable to interact with a member of the opposite sex. Therefore, the woman's marathon time has absolutely no bearing on your life circumstance. Just go back down to your parents basement and watch a Pre video. Everything will be just fine.
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