Why can women close so much faster than men?

women are physiologically different than men, and part of that is that they seem to have a better possibility for range. We have seen that most of the best women are the best from 1500 to 10000. and in the case of hassan we can see that they are able to compete on a world class championship level from 800 all the way through marathon.

It is mostly because women are less powerful so the 800 and 1000 women time is actually quite weak compared to men.

Like the women time to win the Olympics or WC 800 (1:55-2:00) is basically an average freshman high school race winning time.

Whereas the 5000-10000 winning time is almost college level race.

1:55 is a pretty good but pretty basic PB for a male high school runner.

13:58 is a fairly decent PB for even a D1 college runner.

1:54*

14:00*

You named 3 women who are likely all on EPO.

This is the most pseudo-scientific nonsense I've read in at least a week.

It couldn't be that participation rates are much higher in men's competition, which means that there's far more depth and specialisation in each event.

Use real distances.

Chebet closed the last 400 in about 57. That’s about 20-21% slower than the 400 WR

Can men close 13:00 races in 52, a similar difference from the 400 WR? Yeah.

As others have stated correctly, the women’s 800/1000 WRs should really be more like 1:52/2:26 based on where the 400/1500 WRs stand currently.

Chicks are just slower in general. I could have practically jogged to victory in that 5k and I'm no longer training.

Sounds funny but essentially true. Women are so much slower than men but then we point out distances where they aren't quite as far behind. I ran 14:30 in college. I did mile repeats at 4:30 while the women did them at 5:30 but we did recovery runs to get together at 7 minute pace. My wife can't run 25 minutes but she can walk faster than me. I always have to beg her to slow down.

Sounds funny but essentially true. Women are so much slower than men but then we point out distances where they aren't quite as far behind. I ran 14:30 in college. I did mile repeats at 4:30 while the women did them at 5:30 but we did recovery runs to get together at 7 minute pace. My wife can't run 25 minutes but she can walk faster than me. I always have to beg her to slow down.

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And yes, the women's 800/1000 meters records are, for whatever reason, weaker than the equivalent 5K/10K numbers. Rojo said at some point that if you have a D1 guy who's running 14:10/29:30, you expect him to run 1:52/3:50 or so. (I think those were the numbers anyway)

LOL 1:55 would win state meet in some divisions in some states. Not an average freshman time. Come off it.

This isn't remotely correct. Like, off by 10 seconds wrong.

You can argue about physiology and field depth all you like, but those are small potatoes compared to the overwhelming tendency for men to blow their loads way too early.

I drink to that,,,

Sheesh

2:20ish is not an unusual winning close in a somewhat tactical (>13:00) men's 5k. Heck, we've seen a 12:40 race closed in like 2:24, right? 20 years ago a 3:34 race was closed in 1:46. Men can certainly close fast as well.

Because of the power discrepancy their events are relatively more aerobic, which allows for relatively bigger kick.

The 800m time has improved lately with the shoes and digestible sodium bicarb.

Women's 1000m record is incredibly weak. Should be 2:26.

I don't think it is that they close faster, its just that the current crop of top 5k athletes on the women's side are all all-time greats at the shorter distances. All of them are capable of 3:49 or faster at 1500m in the right conditions. The top male 5k athletes are not as good as hicham el guerrouj in the 1500m. If they were as fast as hicham el guerrouj, they'd be closing faster like the women.