Equivalent mens and womens 10k

You forgot several apostrophes.

assuming you are both 25 years old, 32:00 is worth 83% on age grading and 37:30 is worth 80%

You are both talented runners. I would love to run these times.

The women's 10k WR is about 3 min slower than the men's WR. I'd say that the equivalent performance to 32-flat is around 35:45-36:00. Like you say, there are far fewer women capable of running these times on the road scene, but that's more the result of fewer women continuing to train hard beyond college relative to men than it is about the difficulty of achieving the times. Your time is better in my opinion.

For just about all running events women's times are roughly 10-11% slower than men's. Look at all the WR's and you get a range of about 9% slower for the 100m and the marathon, about 12% slower for the 5K and 10k, with everything else in between.

Assuming the depth of women is less than men, so therefore the women's records should be faster, let's go with 10% (although you could also argue the some of the women's records are artificailly fast b/c of drugs, but that is a different topic)

Anyway your 32 min 10K would be a ~35:12 (32:00 X 1.1) for a female.

captainwildcat wrote:Look at all the WR's and you get a range of about 9% slower for the 100m and the marathon, about 12% slower for the 5K and 10k, with everything else in between

it's supposed to be the other way round

sprinting is dependent mostly on muscle mass which is dependent on natural steroid production which is far higher in men than women, so gap shoud be biggest

in distance races, muscle mass is much less of a defining factor ( therefore steroid levels less important ) as this is more dependent on v02/haemoglobin/lactate/etc considerations

i found an empirical formula somewhere ( i'll try to find it ), but sprinting shoud differ by ~ 10% & distance by nearer 9%

this has implications : considering flo-jo's 10.49 which was wind-assisted most likely, her best that day was maybe about 10.60 - 10.65 which -> ~ 9.64 - 9.69, when men's wr was only 9.93 at the time & didn't look intrinsically matched until mo's hobbling 9.82 in '01 ( that was a high 9.6 if uninjured - 60m split of 6.33 )

jeter has gone 10.64 now -> ~ 9.68, which is ~ tyson's ability currently

also flo-jo's 21.34 -> ~ 19.40, when wr at time was 19.72 ( more like 19.60 from carl's easing down 19.75 in '83 ) - time not beaten until 19.32 in '96