Kottke: Avg dude vs. pro football player in 40 yard dash

Average dude being Rich Eisen, of the NFL Network, who in fact trained for this sprint:<p><a href="http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-combine/09000d5d816ad7b3/Eisen-trains-for-40" rel="nofollow">http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-combine/09000d5d816ad7b3/Eisen...</a>

It's amazing how fast even the big dudes run. That's what blows my mind.

Hell - compare the Avg Dude to a Marathon runner. A 42.195km marathon in 2:03:59 - is about 5.67m/s or 20.4km/h. That is a 17 second 100m, or 70 seconds for a 400m lap of a track. Plenty of people couldn't run that one lap at that pace.

It would be cool if they actually gave his time. Also, if you put Tebow in a suit and him in running clothes it would be (a little bit) closer.

I'm assuming there is an entirely different stride that lets them run so fast (aside from tons of training, of course)?