"68:15 - Making A Statement For Female Athletes, Mindset, Launching Points" In the podcast, she literally says that "women have better endurance than men"
“Numerous studies have shown women have a greater resistance to fatigue than men; therefore, women are able to sustain continuous and intermittent muscle contractions at low to moderate intensities longer than men (Clark et al. 2003; Fulco et al. 2001; Hunter & Enoka 2001; Hunter et al. 2004; Russ et al. 2008; Russ & Kent-Braun 2003; Thompson et al. 2007; Wust et al. 2008; Yoon et al. 2007).”
Which "numerous studies" are those? Feminist written ones? If you actually read one of the studies you would find trash "science" saying women have better endurance flexing their elbows but not at the ankles. Men are still faster than women.
"Females are often reported to be generally more resistant to fatigue than males for relative intensity tasks. This has been observed repeatedly for elbow flexors, whereas at the ankle sex differences appear less robust, suggesting localized rather than systemic influences. "
Females are often reported to be generally more resistant to fatigue than males for relative intensity tasks. This has been observed repeatedly for elbow flexors, whereas at the ankle sex differences appear less robust, sugge...
I posted a thread on Sunday about the feat. And as more information comes out, the more skeptical I become, as the details of her trek become increasingly outlandish.
For example:
- Hiking for 17-18 hours a day;
- her fueling strategy included “quick breakfast” and “short meals” while still downing over 10k calories a day;
- she had pacers for 80% of the trail;
- she was behind Saabe’s record by 100 miles when entering New Jersey, yet not only made up that time, but surpassed it by 18 hours;
- finishing the hike by traveling the final 129 miles without sleep. Not to mention the fact that she had already allegedly gone over 2000 miles before she finished that strong.
As another poster alluded to, Jasmine Paris completed Barkleys 100 miles just under 60 hours and started it on fresh legs.
How are we to believe that Dower completed 127 miles in 44 hours after spending the previous 38 days hiking 54+ mile days on 4-5 hours of sleep a night? And when she finishes, she has the strength to make a full speech and pop champagne on Springer Mountain at 11:50 pm?
No complaints of injury, pain, hunger, challenges, setbacks. Just smooth sailing for 40 days.
For anyone curious, here is the link to where she makes those outlandish claims:
How common is it in this type of attempt to have pacers for so much of the trail or as much support as she had in general? It seems like all she had to do was wake up and start running.
I find it interesting that after falling 100 miles behind Saabe in New Jersey that they just decided to add on ~10 more miles a day and that she was able to do it.
Also, 4 weeks before she started the AT, Tara ran Hardrock and finished 4th in 33:10. She was about 7 hours behind Courtney Dauwalter. Is her final push, 127 miles/30,000 ft in 44 hours on the AT is, on its own, a better performance than she put up at Hardrock?
I posted a thread on Sunday about the feat. And as more information comes out, the more skeptical I become, as the details of her trek become increasingly outlandish.
For example:
- Hiking for 17-18 hours a day;
- her fueling strategy included “quick breakfast” and “short meals” while still downing over 10k calories a day;
- she had pacers for 80% of the trail;
- she was behind Saabe’s record by 100 miles when entering New Jersey, yet not only made up that time, but surpassed it by 18 hours;
- finishing the hike by traveling the final 129 miles without sleep. Not to mention the fact that she had already allegedly gone over 2000 miles before she finished that strong.
As another poster alluded to, Jasmine Paris completed Barkleys 100 miles just under 60 hours and started it on fresh legs.
How are we to believe that Dower completed 127 miles in 44 hours after spending the previous 38 days hiking 54+ mile days on 4-5 hours of sleep a night? And when she finishes, she has the strength to make a full speech and pop champagne on Springer Mountain at 11:50 pm?
No complaints of injury, pain, hunger, challenges, setbacks. Just smooth sailing for 40 days.
For anyone curious, here is the link to where she makes those outlandish claims:
How common is it in this type of attempt to have pacers for so much of the trail or as much support as she had in general? It seems like all she had to do was wake up and start running.
I find it interesting that after falling 100 miles behind Saabe in New Jersey that they just decided to add on ~10 more miles a day and that she was able to do it.
Also, 4 weeks before she started the AT, Tara ran Hardrock and finished 4th in 33:10. She was about 7 hours behind Courtney Dauwalter. Is her final push, 127 miles/30,000 ft in 44 hours on the AT is, on its own, a better performance than she put up at Hardrock?
Regarding pacers. Very common. When Scott Jurek had the record he had two pacers. One in front of him and one in back of him. He was pretty wrecked physically and could have taken a serious fall. I don't think he had pacers until his strength went down. There were there basically to hep him if he got injured.
