male equivalent to a female 3 hour marathon?

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17 years ago 06/15/2006 7:46pm EDT

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jaguar1 wrote:
Paula is an outlier.
I wouldn't call Paula an outlier. That would mean she is training harder than any other woman or man. I think she trains as hard as most of the top male marathoners, its the rest of the women that need to raise their game.
OK, for arguments sake I'll call her an outlier, so I'll use a time of 2:19 for woman giving an 89% differential. So, the equivalent works out to 2:40:30.

It doesn't matter whether you would call her one or not. In terms of statistics, she is. Or, her performances are. This is not subjective or a matter of opinion.

I say take the fifth fastest performer ever for women (maybe 2:20:xx) and the fifth fastest for men (~2:06:xx) and make a ratio = 126/140 = .9 and you get 2:42 for men.

There are many other more scientific ways to do it, but that is just debating which way is best rather than coming up with an answer.

17 years ago 06/15/2006 8:16pm EDT

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You have to use Paula's time in your calculation.
Paula is an outlier.

She is indeed. But is the male/female spread in marathoning a difference of mental dedication or physical strength? There are a lot more male than female sub-2:30 marathoners. It seems there are a lot more men who just TRY harder, and keep at it, year after year.

17 years ago 06/16/2006 1:01am EDT

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I wouldn't call Paula an outlier. That would mean she is training harder than any other woman or man. I think she trains as hard as most of the top male marathoners, its the rest of the women that need to raise their game.

No, a woman being built more like a man makes her more likely to perform, well, like a man. Women can and do train just as hard, if not harder than men (we have to spend more time on our feet to run the same number of miles, although this likely is not the case for Paula!). Combine hard training with the right 'build', and you get an outlier. The rest of the female population is not so lucky!

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