[LINK] OT: 20kph [Was: Bush Fire Speeds]

[Antony Barry]

On 20/02/2009, at 6:25 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:58:59 +1100
>> The main fire was moving at 20kph [that's the speed of the winner of
>> the Sydney Olympics Marathon, which was won in record time], the
>> fastest documented rate of spread of a forest fire to that writer's
>> knowledge.  Even in grassland it was running at 11kph [a decent jog]
>> (p. 350-351).


I average 20kph on a bicycle over 15k but I could never keep it up  
for the marathon distance.  Maybe when I was young in my thirties...

Tony

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