Unbelievably wrote:
Wow, I never knew that men experienced these things in races too. Do men regularly get one male runner running behind them the entire way in a 10k, despite your changes in pace - slowing down, speeding up, fetching drinks and so on, who then sprint past you at the finish. Then in the finishing chute, try to talk about your hairstyle and say things like 'I was following you the entire way'. Wow I never knew that happened to so many men as well.
And think of all those men who get overtaken by a woman who breaks the finishing tape in front of them in a marathon. Whose appearance and suitability for relationships with women he will never meet is discussed in derogatory terms on internet sites.
Well said. I've been thinking the same thing.