Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-any-physique-or-skill-set/
Earlier in the year, I heard something that made my head explode.
The 2016 Summer Olympics had just ended. The internet was aflutter with a debate about Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet.
The debate was about how quickly Usain Bolt could run a mile.
Scientists, marathon runners, cross country coaches, Olympians, and others had one heck of a debate. People started calculating his pace from 100 meters or 400 meters and extrapolated that out over the course of a mile. Math geeks couldn’t get enough of the thought experiment.
So obviously this begs the question: “Well, how fast does he actually run a mile?”
There’s just one problem:
Usain Bolt has never run a mile.
WHAT?!
As pointed out by the New Yorker, “Usain Bolt’s agent, Ricky Simms, won’t say whether he believes that his client could run a mile in less than five minutes. But Si…
Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-any-physique-or-skill-set/
Earlier in the year, I heard something that made my head explode.
The 2016 Summer Olympics had just ended. The internet was aflutter with a debate about Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet.
The debate was about how quickly Usain Bolt could run a mile.
Scientists, marathon runners, cross country coaches, Olympians, and others had one heck of a debate. People started calculating his pace from 100 meters or 400 meters and extrapolated that out over the course of a mile. Math geeks couldn’t get enough of the thought experiment.
So obviously this begs the question: “Well, how fast does he actually run a mile?”
There’s just one problem:
Usain Bolt has never run a mile.
WHAT?!
As pointed out by the New Yorker, “Usain Bolt’s agent, Ricky Simms, won’t say whether he believes that his client could run a mile in less than five minutes. But Si…
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