Your BOYS High School CC Team vs. Junxia Wang, Meseret Defar, Tirunesh Dibaba, Lornah Kiplagat and Paula Radcliffe.

I don't know, but unlike you, most of us could probably spell "losing."

It wouldn't even be close. What do you expect? 99% of high school teams in the country couldn't hang with this group, probably more. There's hardly even any individuals that could run respectably against them.

This is one of the dumbest things I've seen on Letsrun. For the sake of arguement? What's the argument? Any guys team gets destroyed, and the boys probably would think it was pretty cool to run agains the best in the world.

OP, what are you fishing for here?

I could beat any of them in a fight.

How about some of the best boy's high school teams ever versus this all-star woman's team?

Isn't there at least one male high school team in history that could beat these women?

Junxia Wang 29:31.78 10,000 meters world record

Yunxia Qu 3:50.46 1,500 meters world record

Meseret Defar 29:59.20 outdoor 10,000 meters

Tirunesh Dibaba 14:11.15 5,000 meters world record

Paula Radcliffe 2:15:25 marathon world record

-->That makes for a damn good college team.

Not damn good, above average I'd say.

Gerry Lindgren would beat them.

the chinese were on drugs without a doubt

this is insulting to those women. you may or may not know that.

Could last year's Foot Locker top five boys all forming a team beat those women?

1 Solomon Haile 15:15

2 Trevor Dunbar 15:22

3 Thomas Porter 15:26

4 Drew Shields 15:27

5 Jakub Zivec 15:29

vs.

1. Junxia Wang 29:31.78 10,000 meters world record

2. Yunxia Qu 3:50.46 1,500 meters world record

3. Meseret Defar 29:59.20 outdoor 10,000 meters

4. Tirunesh Dibaba 14:11.15 5,000 meters world record

5. Paula Radcliffe 2:15:25 marathon world record

?

There sure are some sad and pathetic people on here.

themanontherun wrote:

I'd rather be a mid 15 minute 5k runner who doesn't get periods and have to worry about childbirth than be a 3:50/14:11/29:31/2:15 runner who does.

actually most of them probably don't have to worry about their periods.

wow.... wrote:

There sure are some sad and pathetic people on here.

The sad and pathetic ones are the ones who don't catch on to jokes that aren't really that difficult to pick up on... see below...

uh reallyh wrote:

actually most of them probably don't have to worry about their periods.

What a bunch of teenage or 20 something pigs. One day you'll mature kids.

I love the thought of this race happening, and yeah, I'm a girl. It's cool to be reminded that there are women in the world so fast that they could blow away the guys on my former high school's team. This is an important reminder of how truly amazing athletes such as Paula, Tirunesh and Meseret are, and should be an inspiration to girls and women everywhere who can envision this race taking place.

You idiot.....that lineup and their PR's would beat most male college teams.

What's your definition of most?

midwesta wrote:

What's your definition of most?

Well, to be realistic, German ran a 3:56 MILE this year, and Vail would also totally smoke any woman on that list. So if you go 5-on-5 between OSU's best (yes, some come from Kenya) and those women, I think OSU wins--comfortably. You might be able to pick five not from Kenya that would still win.

If you take high school, boys don't compete in 5000 outside invitationals in the US, but you could pick 5 boys who ran the mile--or at least 1600, as true HS miles in the US aren't that common--under the WR for senior women. Obviously, no single boys HS team is going to beat those 5 women.