I was in an arguement with this girl trying to tell her that there are a TON more Males that train after college then there are females. I don't have the results to back it up, but I know Males are much Deeper than Females in US running. Females defintiely have strong performances up front, but not nearly the depth the guys have. Anyone have any stats to back this up?
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Our 2002 team we brought to the Club National meet had 17 males and 8 females. The ladies depth was MUCH lower. Our 8 ladies doubled and tripled (some did 6, one actually did NINE events in one day), and won the championship.
of course, there are definitely more women who run recreationally for FITNESS to stay in shape, keep of weight etc. Men tend to play basketball at the local YMCA or lift weights. However, as for competitive T&F, it is VERY hard for our club to find women post-collegiately.
In our club (National Level), representation is pretty equal, if anything, it is usually tougher to get on the women's team to XC Nationals.
A lot more guys act like they're really serious about training and end up being pretty dang good local runners.
Women seem to be more decisive that they're going to really go for it, or run for fitness. So maybe it just looks like there are more "serious" men post-collegiates.
I would say look at the results from the top 100 runners who ran in the NCAA Mens and Womens XC Championships last year. Out of those 100 probably 30 of them were senior men, 30 were senior women. I'd bet out of those 30, 80% of the males are still training, and probably only 25% of the females are still training seriously.
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