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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (95851)	1/19/2005 2:04:37 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793838

Paula Radcliffe established the female record at 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds. But her record performance would not even be close to the 200th best time ever run by a man. I wish I had access to more extensive records so I could tell you where it would be on the all time list from both sexes. My guess is the number would have 4 digits. I don't know of any physiologists who express a rationale for men being more suited than women to bear the pain (or any other reason) for marathon running. I don't know of any reason that either sex would be better at bearing the pain, but that is hardly the only factor. But, ultimately - so what? These are elite men and women. What do they have to do with us ordinary folks? Not much. We have been talking about top athletes. If you want to talk about ordinary men, sure you could find many women who could beat them at atheltic events. There is a fairly strong tendency for men to outperform women in these events (for both cultural and physical reasons), but your ordinary male couch potato could get his head handed to him by any number of female athletes. Tim