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Bayard

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2. How times have changed.....

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 11:28 PM

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These days, men will run with the elite women in a marathon, knowing that it will give them a good finish time. The current record is 2:09:56, held by a Kenyan women in the last Chicago Marathon. That's a phenomenal time for anyone. We're talking sub-5 minute mile pace! The men's current record, 2:00:35 (another Kenyan,) is not all that much faster.

Joan Benoit's winning time in the first ever women's Olympic competition was 2:24:52 in 1984. We've come a long way, ladies!!

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On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Thursday OP

so cool that Semple came around in the end Skittles Thursday #1

How times have changed..... Bayard Thursday #2