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Humans run way faster downhill than bears and we can maintain speed for longer. However don't run toward brush as that will slow you down. Bears do have shorter front legs and depending on how hungry they are, will often give up chasing you if they have eaten recently or if they are just chasing you away from their cubs. However, if they are hungry, then play dead, and even if they bite you once, do not cry out at all. That said, I would probably run downhill and hope to hit some river and hope the rapids don't break me too badly. (^: One woman hiker was up on a cliff and she used a stick of wood to thwack the bear ontop of the head until it went away. That would never work on a hungry bear though....
Also a lot of fur animal speeds are faster at certain times of the year. Some animals are kinda chubby in winter putting on fat and might be outrun possibly. Wearing a bell is a good idea, but you need to be able to take that bell off at some point, so don't tie it overly too tight as it can find you easier in the dark with you wearing a bell. Ditch that backpack and you can run faster as well! (^:
The only bear I ever saw was near a hot springs. The bear too one sniff of the sulphur springs and left. Maybe it wasn't hungry. *shrug*
Anyone see that tv special awhile back. They had a race between a cheetah, car, horse, man, and greyhound. The only reason the horse won, because the race was on dirt. The super loud car engine scared the bejezus out of the greyhound and the cheetah and they didn't run fast or in a straight line and they kinda freaked. The horse was freaked out by the car noise, but ran even faster because of the noise. I think it was a quarter horse. My memory is sorta fuzzy.
Jonathan
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