@run_equal

For everyone who believes that men and women, and girls and boys should have equal status in athletics. #runequal 💜💚 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

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Read our statement on the @BritAthletics consultation on XC distances here: runequal.org/ Their survey is open until Jan 29th. We ask all discussing this to do as you would in your clubhouse post race - with shared respect and friendship, whatever your view. 💚💜🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️
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Proud to be part of a club that last night after a respectful debate and an inspiring speech by @Cath_Barber voted to remove any unequal races from the club chamionships #NiddValley @run_equal @NorthernAthlet1 @YorksAthletics @EnglandAthletic 🟪🟩🏃🏻‍♀️✊🏻
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NCAA: 8km Race Distance for ALL at the NCAA XC Championships - Sign the Petition! chng.it/TrN7ZM7t via @Change

Sign the Petition

8km Race Distance for ALL at the NCAA XC Championships

change.org
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Looking through @AthleticsWeekly from early 1970s to find examples of road races for women. Back page of AW from 7th April 1973 - road races listed for men are 4 miles, 6 miles, 8 miles, 20 miles & a marathon. Just one road race for women & it's one mile! #WomensRunningHistory
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Thank you. The fact McColgan’s victory was reduced to a couple of paragraphs at the end of a story has really annoyed me. What hope is there for women’s sport getting coverage in the mainstream press when a near European record has to play second fiddle?
Emily Evans@RunEmilyERun4 May 2022
30:23 is the third fastest women's 10km time in the world this year. 28:40 is the 71st fastest men's time, 28:44 is 83rd.
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🗣️ 'Above all, I look forward to a time when the Run Equal campaign no longer needs to exist' @run_equal campaigner @maudhodson on why it's high time that XC distances were equalised 👇 trib.al/xA3abgU

Should men and women run equal distances at cross-country?

We speak with Maud Hodson from the Run Equal campaign

runnersworld.com
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On #IWD2022 let’s raise a glass to all those pioneering women who have campaigned for gender equality in our sport over the years. They have all met with resistance, some have been laughed at, but they persisted. Let’s all continue #BreakingTheBias 💚💜
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A rare exception to the rule that if a headline is a question, the answer is no. Great work from @maudhodson and @run_equal. "Should men and women run equal distances at cross-country?" runnersworld.com/uk/training…

Should men and women run equal distances at cross-country?

We speak with Maud Hodson from the Run Equal campaign

runnersworld.com
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#WomensHistoryMonth - female running pioneers. In 1926 Violet Piercy ran a marathon distance from Windsor to London in 3:40:22 - recognised by @WorldAthletics as 1st world best time for women’s marathon. playingpasts.co.uk/.../the-f… 📷The Sketch, 13/10/26 @Playing_Pasts @WomensHistNet
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"On January 5, @run_equal submitted their first proposal to the NCAA, in which their main demand was that men and women race the same distance in cross-country, across all three divisions, by 2023." #running womensrunning.com/culture/ru…

NCAA Cross-Country Distances Still Aren't the Same for Men and Women. Run Equal Wants to Change That

A proposal has been submitted to the NCAA to equalize the men’s and women’s cross-country race distances by 2023.

womensrunning.com
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Please SIGN THE PETITION for #RunEqual2023 in the @NCAA! I joined forces with iconic distance runners in the U.S. to ask the @NCAA for equal distance races at Div I - III Cross-Country Championship events. change.org/runequal2023 #261Fearless #AdidasWomen #AdidasRunning #adidas
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Finally, equal distances. New rules before my very eyes PING: @run_equal
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EQUAL DISTANCES #SALbelieve Scotland leads, others follow ! Our National XC equalised Senior distances in 2017 and then all age groups (and #LindsaysXC events) thereafter 👍 @SALChiefExec @LordMcConnell @OvensDavid @MareeToddMSP @ianbeattie1 @MarkMunr0 So now @EuroAthletics 👇
European Athletics
@EuroAthletics16 Nov 2021
From 2023 onwards, men and women will run the same distances across the programme at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. More from the recent European Athletics Council meeting. ⬇

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From 2023 onwards, men and women will run the same distances across the programme at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. More from the recent European Athletics Council meeting. ⬇

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Today was the first equal distance fixture of @oxonxc - lovely to hear of yet another league making the switch. Congrats to everyone who raced, officiated and supported 💚💜
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I just signed up for a local XC league. Senior women 6000m senior men 10000m. I told my colleague (who doesn't run) how this is a thing and she was shocked and didn't even know women running shorter distances was a thing #ukrunchat @run_equal #ukrunners
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This would be wonderful…
Lorenzo Nesi@CoachLN11 Oct 2021
Our work is finally reaching the European level @run_equal european-athletics.com/news/…
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Google "first London Marathon" & 29th March 1981 comes up but there was a marathon in the centre of London the year before - the Avon International Women's Marathon on 3rd August - with 200 runners runyoung50.co.uk/the-first-l… #LondonMarathon #WomensRunningHistory @BritSportHisSoc
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It's almost XC Season!! 🙌💪 Have you got your ribbons, facepaint and back numbers at the ready? 💜💚
purple and green facepaint

ALT purple and green facepaint

purple and green ribbons laid on a cross country race number

ALT purple and green ribbons laid on a cross country race number

run equal written on a piece of paper in purple and green text

ALT run equal written on a piece of paper in purple and green text

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Here is song number two in the 'History of the Marathon' and it's a homage to the legend that is @KVSwitzer! Want to know more about Kathrine? Well, read this too - trib.al/Obt7A5W
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Many schools XC events haven't yet equalised distances for girls and boys of the same age, so its great to see events that get it right - like this one! #runequal 💜💚 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️
WarringtonAC@WarringtonAC27 Sep 2021
This Saturday (2nd Oct) is the 1st date of the Neville Jones Warrington Schools Cross Country League at Walton Gardens 🍁🍂 See below for details. Info for teachers : 📸 The Warrington Guardian will be attending, to take photos & videos.
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