• @GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    389 months ago

    your are connecting two different pieces of data. The speed that a person can run a marathon vs. the ability to run a marathon.

    What they are stating is that women are better able to run that distance not that they are faster at running that distance than men.

    • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      A marathon is not a speed race. It is a 42 km endurance race, similar to endurance hunters would have done on, say, the plains of Africa.

      The vast majority of people today would be unable to finish even a half marathon without collapsing due to utter and complete exhaustion.

      • @GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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        89 months ago

        From what I’ve researched in the past ( I don’t have time to look it up) is that due to fact that women naturally hold more body fat than men that they then have more energy to use on endurance runs. That while they are not faster than men due to smaller muscles they can move for longer periods of time due to having more fat energy.

        I could be wrong it happens often with me.

        • @Murvel@lemm.ee
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          09 months ago

          That may be, who knows (without supprting evidence)? But see, things is, I don’t think hearsay is what a good article in Scientific American should be based on.

            • @Murvel@lemm.ee
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              49 months ago

              Nowhere does it definitely state that’s the case. In fact, the data doesn’t even support that claim since women should excel at ultra marathons, but they don’t. In fact, women don’t excel in any running exercise that I can find.