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while camping for a pet I wondered: How fast is your ground mount? I took to the internet, the max flying speed is 310% which is apparently the speed of sound in WoW due to the achievement, thus making your ground mount go at 113.43 miles per second, crazy huh? Yep I dont think this is right to know the actual speed we will need to know the size of azeroth, work out how long it would take to run across it, presuming each step is 1 feet no speed boosts, this includes the ocean, so we would need to walk across a percentage of azeroth's map, times it by a number THEN we will have an actual number of how fast we go on our ground mounts also giving us a speed of our pets (same as ground mounts)

Ill update when I have this info

its just a theory btw

http://www.wowwiki.com/Speed
The achivement is just for kicks really AFAIK
Standard running speed 100%, and since wow uses yards to measure distance, we can assume said yards are equal to our yards; it seems about right. So, 7 yards a second at 100% speed. A formula to find how many yards you go in a second would be "yards per second = speed% * 7"
Ground mounts (200%, unbuffed) move at 14 yards/second, and max flying (a total of 410%, unbuffed) is 28.7 yards/second.
Hope this helps with finding the equatorial length of Azeroth o:

You... just blew my mind with math.

Characters are extremely fast by real-world standards. The standard running speed is 7 yards per second, or a mile every 4 minutes and 12 seconds (2:37 per kilometer). That's the speed of an excellent collegiate runner, carrying no gear, on a track - and a character can keep this up indefinitely in very harsh terrain in full plate armor! A rogue using Sprint will run 100 meters in 9.2 seconds, while the current men's world record for that distance is 9.58 seconds.

I don't think that's too far out of line. When you run a mile you are not going at full speed. I think the words "extremely fast" are a bit strong. "Very Fast" with "Extreme Endurance" describe it better.