Why do Pro Women Fall More than Pro Men

Mr. Inevitable wrote:Also, it's more likely that a really good woman runner grew up markedly better than her closest competitors, and had less opportunity to learn how to run incident-free in a big pack.

+1.

A guy who's running the 4:0x miles late in high school and the 3:40 1500s in college that indicate the potential to go pro will have tons of experience running in packs.

This is in contrast with many of the top women, who from very early in their running careers are used to separating from the field by large enough margins that they've rarely if ever had to deal with real pack running.

This is further reinforced by the fact that the improvement curve is generally very different for girls than guys: with girls, you'll have kids who run 5 minute miles as high school freshmen and win everything by 10 seconds become girls who run 4:45 as seniors and win everything by 25 seconds. With guys, you'll have 4:35 freshmen milers that lose most of their races develop into 4:05 seniors that win most of their races but are still always racing in packs at competitive meets and only winning by narrow margins.

women... sheesh....amarite?!! Can't do anything right.

Because people like Kevin Beck, who has beat a woman are involved in coaching and are supported by other notorious creeps such as Brad Hudson.

Bump

the trend continues in the women's 1500m

DJERIDL wrote:

Mr. Inevitable wrote:

Isn't part of it that the pros have much greater stride lengths?

I don't believe this is true. The longest strides I ever see are from hobby joggers. Long strides and slow turnover.

Unlikley. Seriously do the math on how long a stride is for someone running a 4:00 flat pace and 190 or strides/sec verus someone running 10 min miles with say a 100 (can you actually get you cadence that low and still run) strides/sec. The strides look longer but that is an illusion.

Lol did you just watch the mens 1500? Two falls in one race, separate instances too.

Ok - I spoke too soon in snakily bumping this thread a few mins ago...

EVEYONE but one dood wrote:

the trend continues in the women's 1500m

And the first men's heat keeps the trend going with 2 falls in one race.

What were you saying again?