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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 816203" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>This article has Bolt at about 28 mph, FloJo at 22 mph, and a theoretical human at 40 mph</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a23878914/how-fast-can-a-human-run/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>If you take a 100 meter race and multiply by (distance in m/time in s)* 2.237, that gives mph.</p><p></p><p>Here are some NCAA track numbers from 2017:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/track-field/results/d1/outdoor17/final/001-1_compiled.htm[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Top was 9.82 sec, and 10th was 10.11 sec. That’s 22.37 mph for first and 22.13 mph for tenth. <s>So, if they’re equivalent times, Nate McCollum would have won the NCAA D1 championship. </s> (whoops, Nate’s not in the top 10) (Our times might be 40 times, though).</p><p></p><p>Those are flying straightaway speeds. I’m sure Miami and Clemson and Alabama (etc.) get times like that, too. To be a Deion Sanders or an Ed Reed, you need speed and shiftiness in almost any direction, and I don’t know how you put that on a stopwatch. Reed could do this “stanky leg” thing at near full speed and leave you holding air instead of tackling him.</p><p></p><p></p><p>ETA:</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footspeed" target="_blank">Footspeed (Wikipedia, with Bolt’s top speed)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/science/human-running-speed-quadruped.html" target="_blank">Randall Munroe (xkcd) and the New York Times on max human speed</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 816203, member: 282"] This article has Bolt at about 28 mph, FloJo at 22 mph, and a theoretical human at 40 mph [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a23878914/how-fast-can-a-human-run/[/URL] If you take a 100 meter race and multiply by (distance in m/time in s)* 2.237, that gives mph. Here are some NCAA track numbers from 2017: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/track-field/results/d1/outdoor17/final/001-1_compiled.htm[/URL] Top was 9.82 sec, and 10th was 10.11 sec. That’s 22.37 mph for first and 22.13 mph for tenth. [s]So, if they’re equivalent times, Nate McCollum would have won the NCAA D1 championship. [/s] (whoops, Nate’s not in the top 10) (Our times might be 40 times, though). Those are flying straightaway speeds. I’m sure Miami and Clemson and Alabama (etc.) get times like that, too. To be a Deion Sanders or an Ed Reed, you need speed and shiftiness in almost any direction, and I don’t know how you put that on a stopwatch. Reed could do this “stanky leg” thing at near full speed and leave you holding air instead of tackling him. ETA: [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footspeed']Footspeed (Wikipedia, with Bolt’s top speed)[/URL] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/science/human-running-speed-quadruped.html']Randall Munroe (xkcd) and the New York Times on max human speed[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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