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I can run much faster quadrupedally, but I get exhausted faster too.
If you trained for it correctly, I bet a 100m dash would certainly win, but the marathon wouldn't.
I think they specify that this applies over short distances. It looks at the 100m in particular.
Humans are bipedal cause we can outrun anything over long distances. Humans hunted animals by running them till they collapsed.