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- From: gkc@freddie.udev.cdc.com (gordon k chace x2367)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: walking/running (was Distinctions)
- Message-ID: <51673@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:42:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.224536.680@mcs.kent.edu>, sscott@mcs.kent.edu (Stephen Scott) writes:
-
- |> difference between running/jogging and walking/race-walking. This has
- |> to do with the stride.
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- By definition, walking has both feet on the ground for a portion of the
- stride, i.e., the number of feet on the ground varies between 1 and 2,
- while running involves jumping thru the air, i.e., the number of feet on
- the ground varies between 0 and 1.
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- In formal race-walking, the rules generally also require that the knee
- must lock during the part of the stride where one leg is in the middle of
- its time on the ground and the body is right over that leg. Frank Shorter
- once criticized race walking as a competition, since the winner turns
- out to be the person who can come closest to violating the rules as judged
- by whoever is the official of the day.
-
- Amongst all the silly definitions for jogging, I once read a major guru
- attempt a serious technical definition. (I think it was Joe Henderson)
- This definition is the relative time spent with a foot on the ground versus
- jumping thru the air, and 50/50 is the threshold.
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