Superspeed question

How fast do you need to be running to be able to run on water? Comic books seem to imply a really high number, but somehow water skiis enable a person to travel on top of the water at normal boat speeds.

If you use the Basilisk lizard (casque-headed iguana, AKA “Jesus Christ lizard”) as your example, you apparently need to be able to run 65 miles per hour, and expend 15 times more energy than humans can.

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You’d probably also need to redesign the human foot to duplicate this feat.

Barefoot waterskiing starts to work at ~30mph. However, with a boat supplying forward motion, you can use your feet solely as hydrofoils.

There have been a few tries at the “walking in two kayaks” concept. You’d slide your feet back and forth as if you were cross-country skiing, and there were drive fins underneath. Going forward, the fins went flat. Going back, the fins would open up into flaps. So, if you got adept enough to look like you were on a Nordic Track®, maybe you could be described as “running on water.”

I don’t know if any of those are still in production.