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She looked like it was a nice comfortable pace. Pretty impressive stuff for any human! Woo Hoo!
Amazing how much wind resistance impacts speed.
All pacing does is remove the wind resistance.
Back when I was young and in shape, I road raced (cycling) and did a lot of training. I could hold 25-30 mph on the flat for quite a while and maybe hit 40 in a sprint for a very short distance. But.... I caught a semi truck on 287 once as it was starting up and paced it to well over 60 for several miles. We'd catch them on training rides from time to time when I was out at Tech as well. They accelerate slow so you can latch on. It was pretty easy to follow them at 55 or so for miles at a time if you wanted to. (stupid dangerous of course.....but I was 19 and invincible)
Anyway.... really amazing to me how fast a human powered machine can go if you remove wind resistance.