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cesnja
12 months ago
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Running Speeds
There were 20000-year old footprints discovered in Australia [1], the estimated speed of these barefoot runners was comparable to olympic sprinters.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/20-000-ye...
mkl
12 months ago
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Subsequent work has revised that estimate downwards quite a bit:
https://www.originalwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-ma...
yread
12 months ago
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It could be that those people were just better at running than us. Tech that makes shoes and track more springy makes things measurably faster
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[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/20-000-ye...