Was the female body designed to run?

Most women are not the fastest before they reach puberty....

Hip width is not related to injury risk in women

Our bodies weren't designed. We evolved.

sure so then replace the word "designed" by evolved. By designed ...you could say designed by evolution.

Nobody's body was designed to do one thing perfectly, neglecting all other functions (unless you count survival and reproduction as together being 'one thing'). With that in mind neither the male body nor the female body were designed (by evolution or otherwise) to run.

So, what is your question?

Isn't you mommy calling you to dinner yet? What, no dinner again, little troll?

Not sure if it was designed to or not, but the female body turns me on.

Yim Yam Eater wrote:

Not sure if it was designed to or not, but the female body turns me on.

this is correct. also women may never run as fast as men, but they look better doing it.

About as much as men, which is to say, not really. We're pretty slow within the animal kingdom.

The fact that females can run and are good at it should answer your question.

Not without their uterus falling out.

I don't care if my body was designed/evolved to run. All I care about is that it's able to and that I like it.

Then how come you keep getting chicked

enduranceisking wrote:

About as much as men, which is to say, not really. We're pretty slow within the animal kingdom.

Hey now, humans are a top species when it comes to endurance running. Sprinting? Sure, we are way down the list. But long distance running? we are near the top. I can think of horses and camels maybe having more endurance, but not many others.

Here is the way it is wrote:

Nobody's body was designed to do one thing perfectly, neglecting all other functions (unless you count survival and reproduction as together being 'one thing'). With that in mind neither the male body nor the female body were designed (by evolution or otherwise) to run.

So, what is your question?

This right here^^. We evolved to survive and reproduce in the climate where we lived.

If running somehow allowed faster runners to reproduce more and fat slobs reproduce less, over time the fastest runners would reproduce the most and hand down their fast running genes. In modern society, this doesn't really happen.

All healthy men and women CAN run. The relative speed of the fastest men and women really doesn't tell you anything about whether either men or women were "designed" or "evolved" to run. If you can run, you can run; your relative speed of running doesn't mean that you aren't running.

The fastest men are faster than the fastest women because the male structure and musculature allows for faster running by men. But that's just a matter of relative speed of running.

By your logic, compared to a cheetah or a gazelle no human - male or female - is "designed" or "evolved" to run, just because a cheetah or gazelle can run faster than the fastest man. By the same kind of logic, you could just as easily say that compared to a turtle, a mole, a fish, or a snake, every healthy human - male and female - is "designed" or "evolved" to run.