As far as human endurance goes (more the topic of various comments than the article), humans can outrun a horse, most recently last year: https://www.bbc.com/ne

As far as human endurance goes (more the topic of various comments than the article), humans can outrun a horse, most recently last year: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65867327 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65867327 I seem to remember reading as a kid that this happened first in some Victorian bet (I would have read this in one of my dad’s kid’s books from the 1930s). This was also a plot device in a Larry Niven short story (one of the Draco’s Tavern stories).