Why Even the Fastest Human Can’t Outrun Your House Cat

Out of many (almost 40!!), drag & inertia are two important speed limiting factors. Surprisingly, drag does not increase with mass. So, "If you were infinitely heavy, you would run infinitely fast, according to air drag,” But inertia does. According to the team’s results, the sweet spot for overcoming air drag and inertia lies at around 110 pounds. Not coincidentally, that’s the average weight of both cheetahs and pronghorns.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-even-the-fastest-human-cant-outrun-your-house-cat/#intcid=_wired-bottom-recirc_52b45ba2-332b-48e0-bea3-40ed23e908fa_text2vec1-reranked-by-vidi