Watching elite runners in any form is straight up mesmerizing to me. During a marathon, they look like they’re gracefully gliding across the concrete—when really, they’re somehow maintaining a sub six ...

Q: How fast is it physically possible for a human to run? — Steve, Davis, California. A: So far, the fastest anyone has run is about 27 1/2 mph, a speed reached (briefly) by sprinter Usain Bo… ...

The limit to how fast a human can run is 9.48 seconds for the 100-meter race, 0.10 seconds faster than Usain Bolt’s current world record, according to Stanford biologist Mark Denny.

Q: How fast is it physically possible for a human to run? — Steve, Davis, California. A: So far, the fastest anyone has run is about 27 1/2 mph, a speed reached (briefly) by sprinter Usain Bo… ...

Usain Bolt's record time of 9.58 seconds in the 100-meter dash is pretty remarkable, but the human body has the potential to go faster. How fast? You might be surprised.

Every four years, the premier event at the summer Olympics is the 100 meter dash, the swift sprint that you can literally miss by sneezing. In the past two Olympics in London and Beijing, the man ...

How fast is it physically possible for a human to run? — Steve in Davis, Calif. So far, the fastest anyone has run is about 27½ miles per hour, a speed reached (briefly) by sprinter Usain Bolt ...

Every four years, the premier event at the summer Olympics is the 100 meter dash, the swift sprint that you can literally miss by sneezing. In the past two Olympics in London and Beijing, the man ...

Q: How fast is it physically possible for a human to run? — Steve, Davis, California. A: So far, the fastest anyone has run is about 27 1/2 mph, a speed reached (briefly) by sprinter Usain Bo… ...

Usain Bolt's record time of 9.58 seconds in the 100-meter dash is pretty remarkable, but the human body has the potential to go faster. How fast? You might be surprised.