Quote Originally Posted by Canton Kev View Post
I think that research might be just a bit wrong.

The Women’s WR for a marathon is 2:11:53, over 11 minutes slower than the Men’s WR.

In competitions, men have run a marathon in under 2:11:53 over 2500 times.
The longer a race goes on, that's where it levels out apparently. My reply was pretty anecdotal. I'm sure the evidence was based around muscle recovery.