IAAF says that racing with men gives women an unfair advantage... or something like that

From the New York Times, a report on a particularly hard-to-understand rule from IAAF that affects women distance runners. So should runners in masters divisions not be allowed to set records when they race with younger (and faster) runners?

BERLIN — Now added to the list of banned performance-enhancing substances for female distance runners: men. 

The world governing body for track and field decided in late August that records in women’s road racing will count only if they are set in women’s-only events, to nullify the benefits of pacesetting by faster male runners, a dynamic that can exist in some marathons, half-marathons and 10-kilometer races where men and women are in the same field.

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