Is Running a More Efficient Way to Travel Than Walking?

Re:Is Running a More Efficient Way to Travel Than Walking? by culebron21 on Monday August 12, 2024 @04:14AM (#41222271)

7 min/mile, or 100 m in 25 seconds seems doable if you excercise regularly, but not for an average human. Higher speeds mean higher power (watts or cal/sec), to which there are limits.

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Re:Is Running a More Efficient Way to Travel Than Walking? by LandR on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:16AM (#41222608)

Depends on how many miles you are doing. If you only want to do 1 mile at 7 min, then that is doable, if you want to do 10k at that pace... I reckon you'd have to be a VERY fit and strong runner.

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Re:Is Running a More Efficient Way to Travel Than Walking? by jdubner on Monday August 12, 2024 @10:26PM (#41231578)

> 7 min/mile, or 100 m in 25 seconds seems doable if you excercise regularly ...

I have to disagree. I run 20 miles per week at about 11 min/mile yet could not run a single 7-minute mile to save my life. The best I can do at a "max effort" is a single 9-minute mile. Never even a 100-yard stretch in the 8s.

But then, I'm 77 years old.

Nowhere in this discussion have I seen an accounting for age. Perhaps with advancing age walking is more efficient (whatever the metric) regardless. Anecdotally (I see that word used here a lot <g>) I don't see any other runners my age, only walkers, so that must be true.

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