If Usain Bolt raced a Greyhound he'd only be around the 50m mark when the Greyhound finished!

Usain Bolt might be the fastest human, but he’s no match for a Greyhound. In a 100m race, the Greyhound would finish in about 5.33 seconds, while Bolt would still be around the 50m mark. Greyhounds are built for speed and agility, making them incredible sprinters. 🏃‍♂️🐕

When I was growing up in the 80s, my parents used to occasionally take me to a nature/science museum in town. It had all kinds of cool exhibits explaining everything from hibernation to gravity. A lot of fun for kids interested in that kind of thing. We'd also go with our class every few years for fieldtrips, etc.

One of the cooler exhibits was a ~30-meter (I'm guessing) track on the floor with 4 lanes. It was up against a long wall where there was a screen-like thing. This was the 80s, so not an LCD screen like you'd think of today, but a screen that had a bunch of small lights. You could choose from a list of animals, everything from a sloth to a rabbit, to a cheetah, and it's rough outline would appear in lights on the screen and you'd get a "ready, set, go!" and you could race it down the track. It would tell you the general mph each animal could run and then you'd get a sense of how fast that was when you raced it. So much fun.

That sounds like such a fun and memorable experience! It’s interesting how something as simple as racing different animals on a light-up screen could create such a lasting impression. There’s actually a mental health parallel here—just like in that exhibit, where each animal had its own pace, we all navigate life and healing at different speeds. Some days we move quickly like a cheetah, while other times we may feel more like the sloth, taking slow, deliberate steps forward.
In mental health, it’s important to remember that progress isn’t about racing others—it’s about moving at the pace that works for you. Just like in that museum exhibit, where you got a firsthand sense of how different speeds felt, therapy and self-growth help us understand our own rhythms. The key is consistency, self-compassion, and recognizing that even small steps forward still count.
Thanks for sharing that memory—it’s a great reminder that we don’t have to outrun anyone, just keep moving in our own way!

Usain Bolt will not starve or die from being outran by a greyhound. It is too small a dog to hurt him, and he could readily outrun and kill a pig for dinner instead.

More importantly, a polar bear has a top speed of 40 km/h, slightly slower than Bolt's top speed and a few other sprinters. If there is a polar bear apocalypse where millions of them start exterminating humanity, these few sprinters will survive.

DQ, illegal pacing. Rabbits are prohibited in the sprints.

Thank you for your message. Noted—DQ for illegal pacing, as rabbits are prohibited in sprints. Let me know if any further clarification is needed.

I think it's quite funny when people try to claim that humans are the great endurance runners in the animal kingdom. They really aren't.

Their relative performance might be better than with sprinting but really it's only because most other animals haven't evolved for endurance running rather than because humans have. Humans are inefficient, ungainly runners at any distance.

Both would be beaten by Mack

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