So tired of the inevitable posts about how girls always slow down when they grow blah blah blah. Some do, some don't. Some slow down for a year and then get even faster.
Celebrate the here and now and stop with the gloom and doom posts about puberty.
ShiRuns wrote:
So tired of the inevitable posts about how girls always slow down when they grow blah blah blah. Some do, some don't. Some slow down for a year and then get even faster.
Celebrate the here and now and stop with the gloom and doom posts about puberty.
+1
Gotta bee wrote:
ShiRuns wrote:So tired of the inevitable posts about how girls always slow down when they grow blah blah blah. Some do, some don't. Some slow down for a year and then get even faster.
Celebrate the here and now and stop with the gloom and doom posts about puberty.
+1
I'm not sure these are gloom and doom posts. I think they are preemptive strikes against the future posts of "what ever happened to" and "goes home devastated" and "got fat and slow" and all the other crap we see heaped on some young women and girls.
Unfortunately too many posts about kids who run fast turn into predictions or elevate expectations unfairly. We've all been to this movie way too many times.
Which brings up this question....If a girl did not go through the changes in puberty that adversed affects performance, like changing hips and menstruation (iron loss), how fast would they be? I guess they'd be as fast as the guys who ran similar times at that age, possibly running in the low 4:20s, high 4:10's for the mile.
I would be amazing. Few males who are now sub 4:20 milers ran 4:5Xfor the mile as 11 and 12 year olds.
markschultz25 wrote:
Which brings up this question....If a girl did not go through the changes in puberty that adversed affects performance, like changing hips and menstruation (iron loss), how fast would they be? I guess they'd be as fast as the guys who ran similar times at that age, possibly running in the low 4:20s, high 4:10's for the mile.
I would be amazing. Few males who are now sub 4:20 milers ran 4:5Xfor the mile as 11 and 12 year olds.
As a general rule, guys hit puberty a year or two later than girls.
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