What's wrong with a woman being faster?

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You should talk.

Yes there are lots of girls that can beat guys. In more ways than one. It seems to me that the only real reason your posting this is that you don't like the fact that these guys are not kissing your ass and feeding your own ego.

Yes many guys don't like it when a girl beats them. So what. Many girls don't like it when the guys consistantly beat them. So what. It seems the only one whining here is you. Get over it and accept the essense of human nature.

If your looking to accuse someone of whining go look in the mirror.

If only I could beat just one woman.

Most of the women faster than me are hot and like to run roadraces in their bun-snuggies. I don't mind running behind them.

There's nothing wrong with it. Women have been beating me since day 1...that's the way it is.

If a guy has a fragile ego & a woman beats him in a race and he gets pissy that's his problem. Train harder, race faster or learn to live with it.

Anne Trason must have left a whole pile of male libidos in her wake in her day, not to mention Joan Benoit, Lynn Jennings, Grete Waitz, Julie Isphording, Rosa Mota, Derartu Tulu, Catherine Ndereba et al.

Sounds like a personal problem (theirs) to me.

how 'bout that! wrote:

1500M 3:50.46 Yunxia Qu 25 12 1972 CHN Beijing 11 09 1993

here's the u.s. h.s. boys 2004 lists - see how many were under these world records:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/lists/2004/prep_out_m.html

So being one of the top 6 or 7 high school milers in the country isn't great?

At the millrose games this weekend the women jumped 14-8 the men 18-8. 4 feet diffrece.

So this curious runner-girl is probably a strong 33-34 minute 10K type of runner beating some of the local club guys. She's probably really good, and these guys are so-so regional-level, 50+ mile-per-week, 16-minute 5K road-racers.[/quote]

Shit yeah! One Keg has had his ass handed to him on a silver platter by a myriad of lean-mean running chicks when he was in Boulder!

Fuck this--you always come on here with some comment and you are totally full of shit. Check the RESULTS. I ran just over 52:00 for 15K at Waterton Canyon (5,800 feet) in June 1995, 21:30s for 4 miles at El Dorado Canyon (5,700 feet) in September 1994 when Lorraine Moeller ran 23+, ran 9:48 for 3,200-meters in a workout on the Potts Field track with Shannon Butler in 1995, ran 25:48 at a 4.7-mile cross country race at the Boulder Res when Adam Goucher ran 23:18, and trained with many of the CU guys in their base-phase in the summers of 1994, 95 and 96. I also ran 31:26 for 10K at the Renaissance Run in Corte Madera/Terre Linda, Calif. in fall, 1990. And on and on.

I wasn't a world-beater, but those aren't bad times. I was much better than you ever were. Suck my balls. I'll race you right now.

I think that women have their share in guys being jerks when getting beaten by girls.

Here is the story:

Yesterday, workout indoors, very rare 200s for me (training for marathon in few months). I ran the first two sets with a group of young (15-18yo) club runners, several of them age-class national champions. It wasn't my fastest day, but I did OK and wasn't at all ashamed when the fastest girl kicked my butt in the last 2 repeats (though she ran only 2/3 of all repeats)... My girlfriend finished her workout earlier and was watching me. After the last one, she asked me: "aren't you ashamed that a girl had beaten you? You are considered a good runner, but this?"

I didn't respond, nothing, but felt insulted and it had eaten me the whole evening. I felt that comment was mean, given the fact that I can beat the girl by over 2 minutes in 3k and by much more over longer distances. I just don't have 26s 200m speed...(ahh, am I making excuses here? it almost seems like). It would even cross mi mind as something shamefull, barring the comment of my GF. Anyways, that was just an example of how many women react weird to see guys getting beaten by the opposite sex. (I got another story of my friend's mom urging him to quit running at the beginning of his career after getting his ass kicked by elite woman in a roadrace... he then went to run 3:44 for 1500 and 13:49 for 5000m).

Curious runner-girl - The answer is these guys still have something to prove - not to others but to themselves. In other words, and please do not take this the wrong way, they have not accepted that they are not really good runners. Personally, I always wanted to be as good as the best women in the world, because those were times I could relate to, as opposed to the times of world class men. Nowadays, I could care less if a woman is faster than me. I respect her for her talent, dedication, etc., because I stopped having to prove anything to others (at least as far as my running goes) a long time ago.

The reason they can't accept it is because they are insecure jerks.

When I first started runnign seriously my first year of high school, I was training with girls. I came in my first track season running 7:13 for the mile and ended up running 5:45 -- we had two girls that were running under 5:50. I didn't think anything of it. Part of it was I didn't realize how untalented I was (that came later), but these were just teammates.

As you can imagine, these were fairly talented girls who had been running for at least a few years, while I had been out for a few weeks. I was consistent in training and somewhere during the summer, I surpassed them so they couldn't run workouts with me anymore.

It still doesn't matter to me -- if they're faster, they're faster -- there are just far fewer than when I was 14.

To think about it, if you're running as fast as the fastest women in your field, you're not in bad shape. At high school that could mean 4:40 and 10:10 -- not bad times, certainly something to build off of. At the world level, that's anything from sub11 to sub14:30 and 30flat and 2:15 -- not bad times at all.

Your girlfriends comment was out of line.

Why should you feel shame by the girl beating you.. for a start you didn't even do the same workout, the distances you race are totally different, etc.

Even if Paula Radcliffe, Jon Brown turned up and beat you in mile reps, there's no 'shame' in that - there are faster people out there

I had my ass handed to me by Uta Pippig in a race once. Plus plenty of other fast women. I don't like to get beat by girls, and it doesn't happen often, but then I don't like to get beat by middle school boys, which has also happened. Life goes on.

Wow, someone touched a nerve with you One Keg??? Look at those results you are quoting! Those are ANCIENT history pratically. And you are even quoting a "workout" as proof of your prowess?? Relax tiger. So some women have kicked your ass here and there in the past, right? It's happened, right? That IS the topic of discussion here, correct? (NOT "how great was some nobody named "One Keg" at one time in the distant past). You are apparently exactly the type of person that this chick is complaining about, a guy who wears his ego on his sleeve, and flips out at any slight, and can't take the suggestion that some women were better than him.

Your decent results are 10 years old....I don't think you want to reace anyone "right now", especially some top-notch females.

dukerdog wrote:

how 'bout that! wrote:

1500M 3:50.46 Yunxia Qu 25 12 1972 CHN Beijing 11 09 1993

here's the u.s. h.s. boys 2004 lists - see how many were under these world records:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/lists/2004/prep_out_m.html

So being one of the top 6 or 7 high school milers in the country isn't great?

#1: i don't think too many people think that this world record is totally legit.

#2: being one of the top 6 or 7 h.s'ers in any one year doesn't make you a great h.s. runner. looking at it this way (assuming 6/7 per year since 1965 - 40 years)- there have been at least 250 h.s.'ers in this country alone who have run faster than the women's world record. so while it makes you a very good high schooler, i doubt you rank as one of the all time greats (of your school or state maybe).

It might have something to do with the fact that you wear those shortsa that say, "you are getting beat by a girl" on the back.

I would be mad too.