Can you run faster than a horse? Not if the horse is running its fastest. But you might be able to run fast for LONGER than a horse. In 1980 a Welsh guy named Gordon Green started the Man vs. Horse race. Dozens of horses and people run for 22 miles. They run the race every year, and a couple of times a person has actually won – including in 2022! At the end of it, both the people and the horses need a good long nap.
Lace up: Who has more legs, a man or a horse?
Jog: When 1 person and 1 horse race, how many running legs do they have together?
Sprint: If the human gets too tired and stops just 1 mile from the end of the 22 miles, how many miles did he run?
Hurdle: If horses have a top speed of 44 miles per hour and humans can run 27 miles per hour, how much faster can horses run than people?
High Jump: 2004 had the most people and animals running: exactly 500 people and 40 horses. How many legs did they have altogether?
Pole Vault: If the fastest horse runs twice as fast as the fastest person, and they run straight at each other from 60 miles apart, how far from the horse’s starting point do they meet?
Answers:
Lace up: A horse, which has 4 legs vs. 2.
Jog: 6 legs.
Sprint: 21 miles.
Hurdle: 17 miles per hour faster.
High Jump: 1,160 legs: 1,000 legs on the people, 160 on the horses.
Pole Vault: 40 miles from where the horse started. For every chunk of distance the person runs, the horse runs 2 of them, so that makes 3 parts total…so the person runs just 1/3 of the total 60 miles, and the horse runs 2/3 of it.
