agips's brain called wrote:
agip wrote:I think you would be hard pressed to find a 1st tier race with $20k in prize money in which the winner where the winner doesn't run at the pace of a distance twice as long. Men or women.
Have you never seen a race with Mo Farah in it? I agree with the other posters. Agip is just trolling.
Good point.
The World Championship has way more than $20k in prize money. Here are Farah's winnignng 5000 times:
1. 2011 - 13:23.36 - slower than 10k WR pace.
2. 2012 - 13:41.66 - - slower than 10k WR pace. (almost 13.1 WR pace as the 13.1 WR is 13:50 pace).
3. 2013 - 13:26.98 - slower than 10k WR pace.
That being said, I understand what the OP is saying. You wouldn't expect a men's race to be won slower than 61:30. It deals with a) women's running isn't nearly as deep as men's running and b) the WR holders in women's running are bigger outliers than in men's running (Maybe in part because of point a))
OP, you do realize that in all of 2015, only 5 women ran faster than 67:42 for 13.1 the entire year. 116 men ran faster than 61:28 last year.