Aren't we all about equality and such these days? Shouldn't they let both teams run the same distance, same course?
Aren't we all about equality and such these days? Shouldn't they let both teams run the same distance, same course?
I would hope so! Seems pretty logical to make the distances equal like they are in track.
According to the gender pay gap BS, women only do 72% the work men do. So they should only run 72% as far as men do. So women should only run 5.76 k.
Many of their track and field events are not the same as men's so XC shouldn't be either.
It might be feasible for Nationals or a Power 5 conference meet, but on any random Saturday if you have a meet with mid majors or god forbid D2/3 schools, your going to be waiting around for the back of the girls pack to finish their 42 minute 8Ks. Nobody wants to see that.
Women are physically incapable of running farther than 3000 meters.
Women should run 10K in xc and do the decathlon. It is silly that they don't.
Yes