A walking human gets about 75 MPG (miles of travel per gallon of food energy). A biking human? Even better, at 290 MPG.
But when you factor in all the fossil fuels that go into making that food, we only get 18 MPG walking and 70 MPG on a bike. Check out the full rundown of the energetic calculations at Do The Math.
(via rien-narrete-nos-esprits)
Things That Don’t Make Sense:
When I was doubled over in pain and only writing to distract myself, I was pretty awesome. I have half a short story that I love.
Now, when I’m getting better, I can barely string two sentences together let alone have them connect with someone else.
I’m pretty sure the “inspiring pain” that some writers talk about was not supposed to be this kind of physical.