{"id":23845,"date":"2018-01-26T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=23845"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:32:59","slug":"time-shake-archaic-gender-inequality-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/01\/26\/time-shake-archaic-gender-inequality-cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to shake-up &#039;archaic&#039; gender inequality in cross-country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ON February 11, nearly 2,000 competitors will line up at Pontypool Park for the first race in 2018 for the Gwent Cross Country League.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There will be races for girls and boys at all ages, from aged 11 to the over-65s.<\/span><br \/>\nThe senior women will be running 6.4km. The senior men will be running 10.1km.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23851\" style=\"width: 661px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23851\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1.png 661w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1-293x220.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23851\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1.png 661w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/CardiffCross-1-293x220.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/noscript> Cross country racing in Llandaff Fields for the 2017 Cardiff Cross Challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They won\u2019t be thinking about the different distances as they wait for the starter\u2019s gun. But why are the ladies&#8217; races over a shorter distance? In an era where equality is supposed to be a standard, why is this allowed to continue?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Welsh Schools District Cross Country at Brecon last season, the junior girls ran 3,750m while the junior boys ran 4,130m. The senior girls ran 5,050m, whereas the senior boys ran 6,210m.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23849\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23849\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1.png 605w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1-500x174.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1-293x102.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23849\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1.png 605w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1-500x174.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/GwentLeague-distances-1-293x102.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/noscript> Recommended race distances for the two genders for the Gwent League<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMaud Hodson thinks that this needs to change and has started the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23runequal\">#RaceEqual<\/a> campaign. Her petition now has 2,400 signatures and the campaign is gathering pace on social media.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t want any girl growing up to think that she cannot run as far as the boys, for reasons of \u201ctradition\u201d or anything else,\u201d she told me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhile I totally get that shorter races are not necessarily easier than longer ones, the important principle is that the same challenge should be offered to both genders. Where the difference in distance is extreme &#8211; as at this Saturday\u2019s South England Athletics Association championships, where it is 8km for the women and 15km for the men- it inevitably downgrades the status of the women\u2019s event compared to the men\u2019s.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is there the same feeling in Wales? I posed the question to Cardiff athletes, both male and female.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucy Marland came third at the Welsh Cross Country Championships last year. Her race was 3.5km shorter than her male counterparts.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am all for equality and have never really understood why men have run longer distance over cross country. I guess I just naively accepted it,\u201d she said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI feel that \u00a0it&#8217;s definitely a topic that needs to raised and brought forward into limelight and question why it hasn&#8217;t been changed to date,&#8221; she added.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23852\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23852\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/lucy-marland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/lucy-marland.jpg 198w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/lucy-marland-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23852\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/lucy-marland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/lucy-marland.jpg 198w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/lucy-marland-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/noscript> Lucy Marland during a cross-country race in Cardiff<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cardiff triathlete Anna Moon also takes part in the Gwent League through the winter. She is equally puzzled: \u201cI have been saying for years that I can&#8217;t believe that women still race less distance than men over cross-country. I really don&#8217;t think there is any reason except tradition which is, frankly, ridiculous.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another regular cross-country runner from Cardiff, Mhairi-Clair Stewart, recalls how this issue goes all the way back to junior level: \u201cAs an U13 girl, we were not allowed to run 1500m, and instead were given our very own discipline \u2013 1200m. That extra 300m makes all the difference apparently. Hit the under-15 age group and 1500m is suddenly doable.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Male runners are sympathetic too. \u201cIt\u2019s archaic,\u201d said Welsh fell runner William Feline. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In October 2015, the International Association of Athletics Federations voted for equal racing distances at the World Cross Country Championships for the first time ever, stating that both men and women would race ten kilometers as part of the IAAF Competition Rules for 2016\u201317. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob Sage is the Communications Manager at Welsh Athletics. He agrees that if the feeling about equal race distance is strong enough, then Welsh Athletics would have to listen and would look at changing things.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Would that mean increasing race distances so that female races are the same as the men\u2019s? I ask. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPossibly, as long as the demand was there,\u201d he nodded slowly. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBut you have to be careful that you then don\u2019t put women off running cross-country.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What about reducing the men\u2019s race length so that it matches the women\u2019s?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThen you have the question as to what point is it a real test of endurance,\u201d Rob answers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, it seems that 6.4km is an appropriate test of female endurance, whereas men need to run 10km before they are &#8220;tested&#8221;. What kind of message is this sending out to young girls today?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Thie is performance director of athletics at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He is a former finalist in the 1500m European Championship, and represented Wales in two Commonwealth Games. He thinks the change to equal race distances is long overdue.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s not been challenged really up until now so people have just accepted it as the norm,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the UK there are certain races which have been run for years and years, so there is a real historical reason for the difference.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One female told me that she was happy with women racing shorter races: \u201cI love a bit of old-fashioned tradition and 6km is plenty.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It seems that the reasons for the inequality stems mainly from \u201ctradition\u201d. Debbie Stenner, who runs for the Forest of Dean AC at some of the Cardiff races questions the original reason for the difference: \u201cWas it because it was thought we couldn&#8217;t run as far? Or because we couldn&#8217;t spare as much time away from our kitchen sinks?\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kate Carter writes the Running Blog at The Guardian and has supported the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23runequal\">#RaceEqual<\/a> campaign from the start. She told me that argument of tradition doesn\u2019t cut it: \u201cTake this to its logical conclusion and we&#8217;d all still be living in caves, bashing rocks together. Thinking like this was why women weren&#8217;t allowed to run the marathon until 1967 &#8211; but thanks to the likes of Bobbi Gibbs and Katharine Switzer challenging the status quo, we all now can.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the UK, Scottish Athletics are leading the way, having equalised the distances for their National Champs last year. They had record entries from both sexes, so although some may have expected women to be put of by the increase on distance &#8211; or indeed men to be discouraged by the decrease in theirs, that did not happen.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The English Cross Country Association and SEAA have said that they have not had many requests for equalisation. But this year, thanks to the #RunEqual campaign, there has been a much more vocal movement for change.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maud Hodson would like to see clear leadership from UK Athletics on the matter, rather than leaving it up to each regional body to make their own decisions. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Rob Sage, Welsh Athletics will wait for an official change at the national level: \u201cIt needs to be a top-down decision and led by UK Athletics,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If you think that the status-quo needs to change, add your name to the petition at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23runequal\">#RunEqual<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON February 11, nearly 2,000 competitors will line up at Pontypool Park for the first race in 2018 for the Gwent Cross Country League. 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