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I'm slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter, but I run.
Maybe I'm not wording that right, but I'll explain it more. When you run, are your feet farther apart than when you walk or are they at about the same distance?
In my case, my walking gait is completely and totally different than/from my running gait.
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The length of your stride whether walking or running is dependent on your pace and on your height, but generally, your stride will be longer when running vs. walking. For me (I'm six foot two inches tall), an easy run stride length is about four feet and on an easy walk its about two and a half feet. The same figures for someone five foot tall would be much different. The major different between walking and running form is in how you land. When walking you land exclusively on your heels and when running (if your form is correct) you should land more on your midfoot. Heel striking on a run is a good indicator of over striding.
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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
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you're supposed to lift your feet? ah. this explains much.
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At least when I am barefoot, running feels a lot more natural to my feet. When I am walking I always feel a bit awkward and clumsy. Too bad I don't have the cardiovascular ability to run everywhere I went
As for stride length, even a very confortable relaxed run yeilds a longer stride than I can confortably walk. I thought I had a very short running stride untill I ran around a swimming pool and I could look at my wet foot prints.
I think that normally I am touching the ground most or all of the time when walking, but am sometimes airborne with running. I think the really fast runners are airborne more of the time.
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When you run, are your feet farther apart than when you walk or are they at about the same distance?
For most people, your walking stride is about 1 foot and your running stride is about 2 feet.