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Are Women Better in the Second Half of an Old Distance Race?
P pacing is probably psychology and understanding your own limits, which men don't tend to maybe do. Many women will go off too fast and then pay a big time in the last quarter of the race. It's like that thing about pain toleranceand people who make these sweeping generalizations about pain tolerance but actually at that', that's the theory wel woman can have babies, therefor they have higher paid tolerance than men. If a woman's had a babi, she can do with more pain. And when there are, there's no evidence to suggest that that's truei i on that, i don't but, i mean, maybe there is.
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