Also mixed his markers from widely differing periods .
If you were fit because you worked outside, walked everywhere anyway, and could climb a hill without needing to stop every 10 vertical metres for a fag (like I do) wouldn't it be easier to go up and over if you knew it to be safe rather than around?
The fittest and pro's don't do that though ,they still zig zag keeping an even rate , even deer do it unless they are fleeing for their lives and then they can only manage so much .
As a total aside, but related to all this in a way ... It's silly how some folk will accept one theory, i.e. Darwinian Evolution, and ignore the the gaps in Darwin's version of it, and then totally dismiss another theory because of a gap that could be relatively smaller than the Darwin-theory gap. It's all down to what you've been taught and told is fact I suppose.
We are lazy and go for the sound bite that's how science and religion can get away with a lot of blethers , at least science gets caught eventually .[/quote]