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For normal races, men are about 10% faster, whether its 100 meters or 100 miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon
I took a look at the Badwater and it seems that, in recent years, the men's champion is about 10% faster than the women's champion, although with high variance. Sometimes, it's only a small difference. Sometimes it's a HUGE difference. In 2012, the best woman's time was 30.6% longer than the best men's time! That's about the same difference as between Usain Bolt and the world record 9 year old. In other words, a giant chasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon
Early years of the race were weird and should be thrown out. Consider this:
The Badwater only provides more data that men dominate in long distance events just as they do in short distance ones. The only thing weird about the Badwater is that variance is much higher than normal.
Just find a casual enough pool. Ultras are still mostly amateurs, nice white college educated people.
Look! Here's race where you have to hop on one leg while saying the alphabet backwards for 7 miles. One year, a woman beat 5 male competitors to win the race.
From that we conclude that women have superior endurance.
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