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The article is a pointless counter-critique of online stupidity. Athleticism can be easily calculated with numbers:

* Lowness of resting pulse rate

* VO2max level

* Speed to run 100m, 800m, 1600m, marathon, 100 miles, 1000 miles

* same with biking, swimming, and mountain climbing

* squat weight limit, deadlift weight limit

* total consecutive reps of sit-ups, 20lbs bicep curl, 40lbs

What’s interesting is the distance between male and female athletic performance, across the board, grows inversely to the duration of continuous effort. For a while the fastest 100 miler in the world, by a significant margin, was female around age 40.

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That seems like a pretty limited way to measure athleticism. No throwing? No jumping? No pull ups?

And at the elite levels of running, men have a pretty consistent speed advantage over women at all distances.

Stop guessing at performance. This is the very ignorance the article is railing against.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon

I am seeing a lot of women world record holders. How can that be if males are consistently faster than female runners at all distances?

Stop guessing at performance. There are no standardized ultramarathon race distances or times at which women hold the overall world record. Compared to marathons and shorter distances, the performance variance in ultras is a bit more random because there are just very few participants. The small number of events and lack of prize money means that hardly any world-class elite runners even sign up for ultras.

I mean… Men are faster than women in the general case. It’s not really up for debate— it’s grounded in biological differences. Testosterone is essentially a steroid that women are not working with. There is a clear divide in the competition at all levels of the sport to facilitate this and promote a fair level of competition.

The ultra marathoning statistics are fine, but they also have significantly smaller viewership and uptake in the general population. Consequently, it’s more of the Wild West, and as a result, I don’t think it accurately reflects the global running scene.

It’s it’s… more developers that cannot measure things.

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