Are women better ultra-endurance athletes than men?
Through thunderstorms, scorching heat and icy rain, Fiona Kolbinger cycled 2,485 miles in a little more than 10 days over some of Europe's most demanding terrain.
Perhaps she should not have been so surprised: her result is one of a number of wins racked up by female ultra-endurance athletes in recent years.Jasmin Paris became the first woman to win the 268-mile Montane Spine Race This year's marathon was won by Eliud Eliud Kipchoge who finished the course in two hours, two minutes and 38 seconds. Brigid Kosgei, who won the women's race, took 16 minutes longer."One of the reasons why women tend to be able to compete with men and sometimes outperform them, is that the greater maximal capacities exhibited by men aren't as important in an ultra-endurance event," Dr Tiller, who is also an ultra-marathon runner, said.
"Certainly from when I've done races, women manage themselves in a completely different way," she told the BBC. She became aware of this while completing a marathon at the North Pole. "Typically females use more emotion-focused coping so they focus more on how to reframe what they are feeling than males in general. That might be a reason why they may be more suited to those more ultra-endurance events."Courtney Dauwalter won the 238-mile MOAB race on just 21 minutes' sleep
"Some female participants said events such as childbirth had helped them to deal with the pain and meant they had more belief in themselves so that they could push through the pain," Dr Meijen said."When you think about ultra-endurance, it is a very painful experience." He said that ultra-endurance runner Ann Trason was breaking records and beating men in ultra-endurance marathons in the late 1980s until 2004.
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