In high school, breaking 5 is the everyman achievement for distance runners. What is that magic barrier for girls?
In high school, breaking 5 is the everyman achievement for distance runners. What is that magic barrier for girls?
Bobby Sands wrote:
In high school, breaking 5 is the everyman achievement for distance runners. What is that magic barrier for girls?
Well, let's see. The male world record is 3:43, and the women's world record is 4:12. That's about a 30-sec difference
5:00 + 30sec is 5:30
I´d assume 5:30
OlympicHopefull wrote:
Bobby Sands wrote:
In high school, breaking 5 is the everyman achievement for distance runners. What is that magic barrier for girls?
Well, let's see. The male world record is 3:43, and the women's world record is 4:12. That's about a 30-sec difference
5:00 + 30sec is 5:30
I´d assume 5:30
Probably makes more sense to do the same percentage difference. So it would be 5:39 using this method.
0.885 x womens time = equivalent mens time.
In IL state qualifying for the mile is about 4:22 for boys and ~5:09 for girls. 5:00 is +38 seconds for boys, that means the girls equivalent in IL would be 5:47.
But really breaking 6:00 would be the true equivalent because of the perceived time barrier.
5:40 - 5:45
that's such a stupid way of doing it
Here is my method:
Using MileSplit's database of 2018 outdoor track times for the mile race and converted 1600m races, I found that the mean girls' time was 4:41.38 and the boys' time was 4:04.52.
The difference between these two means is 36.86 seconds, and the ratio is approximately 1:1.15.
These data give us a rough idea of how girls' and boys' times compare in the mile and 1600m in the most recent full outdoor season. We can now use this to figure out roughly what the girls' equivalent is of a 5-minute-mile.
If we use strictly the flat difference, the output guess we get is approximately 5:37. If we use only the ratio, we get approximately 5:45. Based on these results, I conclude that an appropriate round number for the girls' equivalent of a five-minute mile is 5:40.
Keep in mind that my above methods are far from scientific, and therefore severely lack in both precision and accuracy. This is not a definitive answer.
I hoped that helped to answer your question!
5:45-5:50. I have spent a lot of time devising equivalent performances for boys and girls, and this is about what I've found it to be.
I should have noted: The mean times I used were of the top ten from the season.
5:00, but tends to be slower because our society hasn't mitigated the effects of implicit bias, patriarchy, good boy's club, historical underrepresentation, etc.
As much as I am in support of women's athletics, you would have to be a fool to not acknowledge the physical differences between the sexes when it comes to high school track and field performances. In the 2018 outdoor season, nationally only 234 girls broke five minutes. On the boys' side, that number was 785 in the state of Virginia alone.
Unless you were being sarcastic, in which case my apologies for misinterpreting your remarks.
Once the transgender wave really kicks in it will be...5:00
5:40