Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
Yes. It is "interesting" but Tucker admits it depends how you do the matching. The Comrades is a bit special and if a man and woman can complete a marathon distance in 3 hours clearly the woman is relatively a "better" runner than the man and arguably should beat the man at the Comrades over full distance - she is just "better".

Presumably analysis could be made on the comparative male/ female "splits" of elite runners in say the London Marathon where conditions - nice flat tarmac - are comparable.
I think that is pretty much what he was saying.
The best male marathoner will be faster than the best female marathoner.
The best male comrades-er will be faster than the best female comrades-er.
etc etc for other distances.

His slight nuance, was that if a particular male and female (pair) were matched at a distance. The female (of the pair) would probably be faster at longer distances but the male (of the pair) would probably be faster at shorter distances.