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Re:Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record by 07d046 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:20PM (#18020889)
Yep, I've heard the same about thru-hiking. Women might be faster at running 2000+ miles than men. It's for efforts measured in minutes or hours that the fastest men are faster than the fastest women.

Edit: I wasn't expecting my comments here to be so controversial

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Re:Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record by bloomer on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:48PM (#18021014)
Do you have any source for this? It seems with such a small participation rate for thru-hiking, getting any sort of meaningful data about relative abilities would be unlikely.
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Re:Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record by 07d046 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:59PM (#18021069)
That's very true, extraordinarily few people are going for fastest times on these, so it's quite speculative. Here's an article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/on-the-longest-hik...
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Re:Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record by skookumchuck on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:25AM (#18021662)
Women tend to be lighter than men, which likely makes a difference.
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