Re: World's Fastest Humans (484 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: November 08, 2004 01:28PM
In "Are Racehorses Improving, Part 2", which can be found in the archives here , I went into a lot of this, and mentioned that the mile record for humans has improved almost 2% since 1982, when we began making figures. If you use 1:40 for an equine mile it's one hundred seconds, making the equivalent 2% come out to two seconds, which by memory is about 8 points (I'm too lazy to look it up). The mile record for humans had been improving at a much faster rate over the previous 50 years or so, as well.
If anyone is seriously interested in this subject I strongly recommend they read all 3 articles in the archives.
TGJB