06-22-2011, 03:25 AM
I recalled 70mph/quarter-mile and checked w/Wikipedia:
That is spectacularly fast. And anaerobic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah wrote:
The cheetah, however, achieves by far the fastest land speed of any living animal — between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph)[3][4] in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.[5]
That is spectacularly fast. And anaerobic.