It is true, at least for me (I am 176 cm high), that a walking pace is just about a yard, and a running pace is about a meter. I have run around 400 m tracks many, many times, and usually I put in quite close to 400 strides per lap.  And I have paced off distances on the ground in order to estimate how many ten-foot pieces of PVC pipe to buy often enough to find that the shorter stride is about a yard.  These are good rules of thumb, like the one I like best: 100 m in one minute at a moderate walking pace.
 
HARRY WYETH

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