Women: As girls, did you beat the boys?

This happened to me. When I was 14, I hadn't developed yet at all and I lost a 200M race to a girl. And I turned out to be farely fast (10.8 - 100M, 14.47 - 110HH, 49 split - 4x4). Girls develop much sooner than boys and it's common for girls to beat boys at young ages.

Your subject line begs for it, but I won't succumb. May I have another?

female. was faster than the boys in grade school & jr. high. mid 33 10k in my thirties. so i'm still faster than a few ;)

no you sucked it up that day, accept it :)!

i'll play wrote:

female. was faster than the boys in grade school & jr. high. mid 33 10k in my thirties. so i'm still faster than a few ;)

Obviously a talented runner. You'd have been on my heels in a few 10 km races....

victoria, b.c. runner wrote:

i'll play wrote:

female. was faster than the boys in grade school & jr. high. mid 33 10k in my thirties. so i'm still faster than a few ;)

Obviously a talented runner. You'd have been on my heels in a few 10 km races....

..and kicked my ass in any 10K I've ever run. So far.

I'd say that you are ahead of pretty much ALL of the grade school & jr. high boys...

i'll play wrote:

female. was faster than the boys in grade school & jr. high. mid 33 10k in my thirties. so i'm still faster than a few ;)

Me?

Haven't raced a good 10 km in many years.

Never got to compete against the girls when I was a teen either.

I was always competitive in the mile run. One year I think I won it all. Second grade maybe. We had to run at least a quarter mile everyday and for me and the boys it was a race. It was the highlight of my day! I won half the time, but our teacher would give the girls a head start sometimes.

mid 33 10k in your thirties? cool. who are you?

I'm a guy; in 6th grade, we used to run 3/4 mile around the school yard before recess. Most of the kids hated it. But it was always between me, another guy and a girl who would "win" that day.

I think it was mostly a matter of motivation though, as I found out later just how mediocre my talent was. We three were the "Teacher's favorites" in that class, I guess you could say- we competed for top spot in everything.....

black chicks could always beat white dudes

humiliated at 14 wrote:

This happened to me. When I was 14, I hadn't developed yet at all and I lost a 200M race to a girl. And I turned out to be farely fast (10.8 - 100M, 14.47 - 110HH, 49 split - 4x4). Girls develop much sooner than boys and it's common for girls to beat boys at young ages.

Am I reading this right, you ran a 49 400 at 14 and were beat by a girl. Even Monique Henderson could not have done that at 14.

Did you read the post correctly, they were asking your running times, not how long it took you to beat off at 14.

No, you didn't read his post correctly. He said he EVENTUALLY ended up being a 49 400m runner after being beat by a girl at an early age.

In 6th grade, my friend and I (girls) beat ALL the boys in the phys ed mile.

In high school, my league combined the boys and girls 3200m race at league finals. Racing against the boys was so funny! I'd beat quite a few of them, and they'd practically die trying to keep from being passed.

in other words, back then sweaty palms were good ;)

In my town they actually have grade school cross country. Their races are between 800 meters and a mile and every race I've watched the first grade through 6th grade girls winners consistently run faster times than the boys.

Maybe its because the better boy athletes are doing other sports and not competing but that surprised me.

In 6th grade, the early maturation of females kicks in, and gives them a brief advantage physically. I think that if you look at age-group records, this will be born out. In our town, decades ago, we had a girl who ran sub-5:00 for the mile in sixth grade. I'm sure no boys at the time could come close, probabaly even nationally. By HS sophomore year she had the National HS record of 4:42. By that time many boys her age, even some in hre own school, could beat her.

slaps wrote:

In my town they actually have grade school cross country. Their races are between 800 meters and a mile and every race I've watched the first grade through 6th grade girls winners consistently run faster times than the boys.

Maybe its because the better boy athletes are doing other sports and not competing but that surprised me.

It looks like the females pick up several minutes advantage in 5K by age 12, but then quickly lose it at 13- here are the single-age records for 5000m:

Boys

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11y180d 19:17 Lee Cherney (USA) 03 Oct 1958 26 Apr 1970 n/a USA

12y210d 20:09.0 John Noel (USA) 16 May 1959 12 Dec 1971 n/a USA

13y244d 15:58.6 Donald Wilkinson (AUS) 26 Jul 1957 27 Mar 1971 Brisbane AUS

14y337d 13:52.58 John Kariuki (KEN) 10 Nov 1986 13 Oct 2001 Naruto JPN

15y346d 13:25.65 Abreham FDeleke (ETH) 23 Sep 1989 04 Sep 2005 Berlin GER

Girls

11y316d 17:59.7 Kathy Kiernan (USA) 03 Apr 1965 13 Feb 1977 n/a CA USA

12y230d 16:55.3 Vickie Cook (USA) 29 May 1964 13 Feb 1966 n/a CA USA

13y136d 16:43.02 Briana Jackucewicz (USA) 28 Oct 1990 12 Mar 2004 New York NY/USA

14y288d 15:22.0 Nancy Wambui (KEN) 28 Jul 1986 12 May 2001 Nairobi KEN

15y158d 15:08.42 Ling-ling Guo (CHN) 18 Jun 1986 23 Nov 2001 Guangzhou CHN