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Is it just me who thinks this is a bit ageist/sexisct

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Velociraptor Jul 2015 1:21pm, 28 Jul 2015 32,690 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I agree with Nellers. I wouldn't mind running in a race that's explicitly oldies-only, or women-only, but telling me that I am by definition slower than a 40-year-old or a 15-year-old who runs around the same speed as I do is slightly inflammatory. (OK, I haven't run sub-22 for 5km for a few years. But if it was sub-23 they'd chosen, or sub-25 ... )
Cyclops Jul 2015 1:28pm, 28 Jul 2015 1,875 posts	Quote Pin Cyclops Hahaha! Fantastically insulting!!
marshallini Jul 2015 1:33pm, 28 Jul 2015 961 posts	Quote Pin marshallini Last years Slow race results; 1 Christian Mummert .MU13 19.10 8 Graham Bell ..........M60 20.43 11 Andrea Normington F50 21.32 15 Lauren Eadon ........F50 21.48 18 Jane Morley ...........F60 21.57 9 runners in the slow race in FV50+ & MV60+ faster than the slowest in the Fast race (23:50) 5 runners in total in the Fast race slower than 22 mins.
marshallini Jul 2015 1:39pm, 28 Jul 2015 962 posts	Quote Pin marshallini The Fast race had an illegal Slow race competitor running.......... 34 Gavin Dalton M60 17.28
marshallini Jul 2015 1:41pm, 28 Jul 2015 963 posts	Quote Pin marshallini Not the only one... 89 Beverley Jackson F55 19.31 105 Julie Masterman F50 20.14
Old Croc Jul 2015 1:46pm, 28 Jul 2015 26,139 posts	Quote Pin Old Croc I just looked at last parkrun I did and there were 5 M50 or older under 22 mins!
Jambomo Jul 2015 1:47pm, 28 Jul 2015 5,292 posts	Quote Pin Jambomo If they want to call them fast and slow races they should really be doing it by setting time that you need to be faster than. Doesn't really matter what age/sex you are, I would quite comfortably be beaten by most of the F50 women and M60 men!
swittle Jul 2015 2:14pm, 28 Jul 2015 34,996 posts	Quote Pin swittle Don't run it.
DeeGee Jul 2015 2:23pm, 28 Jul 2015 16,638 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee Interesting thought, though. Local races, you tend to know who you're running against. If you seed the race by time then you will split categories, with maybe three vet Ladies in one race, and others in the other race, and one of the vet ladies in the 'other' race pulls an absolute blinder, a massive PB and wins the category. The ladies in the 'faster' race might have had a chance to chase a bit better if the lady in race B having her breakthrough performance was in the same race as the 'faster' ladies. They need to split the field somehow. They should just have found a better way to describe it.
anthonyj89 Jul 2015 2:26pm, 28 Jul 2015 27 posts	Quote Pin anthonyj89 Martin Rees - Les Croupiers - 62 - 5k SB 16.25