This is an interesting concept someone came up with. The new Jerusalem light-rail has come under criticism for being extremely slow. One person, a local Jerusalem resident, decided he would test how slow it actually is. he decided to race the train.

This fellow, Michael Spivack, is an amateur athlete. According to the article, this means that he runs 5 minutes per kilometer or slower. To compete with the train, he had to run at about 5 minutes per km. The run was a total of 13.8km, or 8.5 miles.

Spivack won the race, coming to the end of the route 4 minutes before the train.

To be fair, the train still has to stop at various stops and let passengers off and on, which slows it down, both in speed between stops but also at the stops.

I guess this means they need to work on the system to speed up those trains.

or else it means the people of Jerusalem might as well start running or jogging, because many of them will be able to get to their locations quicker that way than by using public transportation. And they will get healthier in the process!

I do know that I run considerably slower than 5 minutes per kilometer. if I had tried this the train would have run me over. it might be a good training session though, as the train bearing down on you might make you run faster. Do it often enough and you have found a great method of increasing your speed.