What's quicker? Cycling or running?
This great video produced by Max Joseph puts running against cycling in a 5.5km commute through the heart of London during rush hour. Watch the video before reading on..
Interestingly the run was faster. Despite the bike taking an early lead, traffic and stop lights eventually attributed to its loss. An example of the tortoise beating the hare.
From the video the run was physically more taxing than the cycle and that if the commute had been a longer distance, the likely winner would be the bike. Although the bike would probably the more stressful of the two.
What would be interesting to see would be a comparison to public transport as well. We're all aware that cycling is one of the fastest forms of transport in London, but how much faster? Or even if this experiment were to be carried out in numerous large cities by other people to determine what is the faster commute, cycling or running.
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