Many, many years ago I was at Navy boot camp in San Francisco. I am
short (170 cm) and even shorter legs (71 cm inseam). They put the
tall guys at the front of the platoon, and us short guys at the rear.
If I recall, the standard stride was 30" (76 cm). It was MURDER on us
short-legged guys trying to keep up. 24" (61 cm) is much more comfortable.
Given that people were smaller 100 and 200 years ago, I doubt that a
yard was ever considered to be a regular stride. I've always heard it
was the distance from the King's nose to the tips of the fingers on
his outstretched arm.
Jim Elwell
At 2 11 05, 11:46 AM, Stephen Humphreys wrote:
I will have to assume you are quite short.
I've read that on of the definitions of a yard in American parlance
is the length of a stride.
From: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:35123] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion.
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:56:44 -0000
Stephen Humphreys wrote:
"Can I suggest that since a yard is roughly a pace - that you pace out the
distance to find out (approximately) how far it really is?"
Well, I could try but 3 feet at a time is QUITE a pace :)
