@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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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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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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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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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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RunEqual retweeted
BBC Sport
@BBCSport7 Aug 2021
🥇🥇🥉 Women's 10,000m gold Women's 5,000m gold Women's 1,500m bronze Sifan Hassan claimed her second gold of #Tokyo2020 #bbcolympics

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What a day for GB women! Medals for Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald, Kate French, Laura Muir, the Hockey team, 4x100m relay squad, & a final tomorrow for Lauren Price. Stories of competing as a mum, comebacks from injury, breaking national records. Role models? Spoilt for choice💫
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Over and over again, sports clubs claim that their sport has historically been ‘male-only’, and hint at how progressive they are for having allowed women to join in the 1960s/70s/80s/90s/2000s/2010s. It makes me so angry! It’s just not true.
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RunEqual retweeted
Joy Jan@JoyJan1529 Apr 2021
Replying to @A_Yellow_Gate @stevemagness @run_equal
In Olympic swimming the longest event was 1500m for men and 800m for women -- until this year! google.com/amp/s/ftw.usatoda…
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A false narrative meant than women’s opportunities in athletics were stopped for 3 decades . This is still happening. Stories are powerful and easy to tell. Truth is harder to accept @run_equal @JoannaCoates @EnglandAthletic
Steve Magness
@stevemagness29 Apr 2021
At the 1928 Olympics, women ran the 800m for the 1st time. After the race, reporters wrote stories of women collapsing in utter exhaustion with half the field dropping out. None of that occured. The 800 was eliminated for 32 years. Stories are powerful. thegrowtheq.com/the-unfortun…

The (Unfortunate) Power of a Story - The Growth Equation

At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to run the 800m for the first time. Up until that point, women were restricted to the short sprints, while men had a full plate of events to...

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