Which animals are an even match for humans in a race?

humans like kenyans can outrun most animals over a distance. big preditors won't go the distance.

small animals won't be able to do a fast 5k.

insects, jelly fish. they lose.

turtles and reptiles they lose.

for speed, bolt gets beat by most mammals of any size.

but man will out run a chimp or gorilla or monkey all but a baboon.

man beats penguins and seals easily.

and snakes and ducks.

better lose the can't run phobia, man is a talented beast.

that is, el natural, and not el americano.

agreed too, as noted above, man beats horses at basket ball.

easily wit the 180 degree turns.

running backwards, horses can't do

let alone dribble.

a 3, ? forget about it.

Well here's this I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCNVvvmxNw

animal kingdom losing ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o79ngpmfDlc

Man invents automotives and wins. Man eventually bull dozes nature into oblivion because we need more parking lots. Animals lose.

A human in perfect conditions has run 100 miles in a bit over 11 hours. Horses have run 100 miles in under 6 hours with humans on their backs. Horses are better than humans at running.

https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/world-endurance-record-broken

Horse racer wrote:

ridiculous event wrote:

This is the dumbest comparison ever. Slow horses over a bad course and undoubtedly with SPCA vet checks for the horses to ensure they don't break a sweat.

A person has no chance against a horse on a runnable course without borderline rock climbing or leg breaking terrain.

A good horse can cover over 20 miles in an hour and Arabians do 100 miles in under 8 hours.

Many people can beat a horse in a race with one simple feature on the course — a 180 degree turn. Horses cannot turn around quickly. Set the race up like suicides in basketball, and the human will win. So with some experimentation, one can pick the right distance before and after the turn to make the race competitive.

I guess you've never seen barrel racing or reining competitions?

A human sucks relative to a horse.

elephino wrote:

A human in perfect conditions has run 100 miles in a bit over 11 hours. Horses have run 100 miles in under 6 hours with humans on their backs. Horses are better than humans at running.

https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/world-endurance-record-broken

And the gelding didn't even complain that he had no T levels.

Horse racer wrote:

ridiculous event wrote:

This is the dumbest comparison ever. Slow horses over a bad course and undoubtedly with SPCA vet checks for the horses to ensure they don't break a sweat.

A person has no chance against a horse on a runnable course without borderline rock climbing or leg breaking terrain.

A good horse can cover over 20 miles in an hour and Arabians do 100 miles in under 8 hours.

Many people can beat a horse in a race with one simple feature on the course — a 180 degree turn. Horses cannot turn around quickly. Set the race up like suicides in basketball, and the human will win. So with some experimentation, one can pick the right distance before and after the turn to make the race competitive.

longjack wrote:

agreed too, as noted above, man beats horses at basket ball.

easily wit the 180 degree turns.

running backwards, horses can't do

let alone dribble.

a 3, ? forget about it.

Basketball is a race?

Bad Wigins wrote:

WhiteLines wrote:

Gallapagos Tortoise over a 30,000 Day race

Even a very slow human would need only 5000 days, less than 15 years, to put things out of reach for the tortoise.

How about a year-long desert race, no food or water allowed and no leaving the course until the end of the race.

This was my favorite:

"A tug-of-war between a sumo wrestler and a large, female orangutan. The winner: the orangutan."

Also this:

These athletes are clearly animals and probably many humans could get the best of them...

https://www.gamedaynews.com/athletes/animals-athletes-look-like/?view-all&chrome=1

...alright, that's it for me for the day. Enjoy.

sure, of course some animals specialize in running.

you are not going to beat them.

but even a horse, how about mountain running?

you're going to need a billy goat to beat a good man there.

anyway, an ironman or mma athlete is not weak in the animal kingdom.

and of course you give them a club or spear and then //

well you know.

100m: chihuahua

400m: cocker spaniel

1,500m: damn that cocker spaniel can run

5,000m: seriously? A damn cocker spaniel?

10,000m: Australian shepard

marathon: Australian shepard

100+ miles in warm/hot weather: no animal on earth beats a trained human

The truly sad question is when you bring this to the pool. What water creature could beat Michael Phelps? Goldfish, minnow, maybe a tadpole with a good VO2 max, a 4-hour-old sea turtle, a really frightened nautilus, a terribly hungry crab...

Grenio wrote:

100+ miles in warm/hot weather: no animal on earth beats a trained human

Really? The horses that ran 100 miles in under 6 hours in Dubai couldn't beat a human?

Bad Wigins wrote:

Not faster. Not slower. At a given distance, which animals are about 50/50 to beat or lose to a human? Assume the animal knows it's a race and wants to win.

Offhand, over 1500m I'd guess most trained runners may or may not beat a squirrel or a black mamba.

Guy throws out squirrel and snake and people immediately jump to horse (probably the worst possible guess to this question).

My gut tells me that a squirrel would win hands down over 10 meters because they go from zero to top speed in the blink of an eye, but once a human hits top speed, he's overtaking the squirrel quite easily.

This tangent about horses is entertaining but the issue is settled. Horses are faster unless you handicap them.

Enough of the speculation! Time for science. You people with pet rats and chihauhaus and such, find out their 30m times. Measure the circumference of that hamster wheel, count how many times it turns in five minutes and calculate how fast and far the hamster went.