pacing

calibrated pacing

> The books always say find your natural step, regardless of its length, and work with it.

Yes, that's what i was taught, and always teach:

Count how many personal, natural paces there are along a measured baseline, on terrain similar to that of the survey, and calculate your "units factor" (feet per pace).

The reasoning is that we're not trained soldiers and we're not marching on the parade ground and if we try to adjust our step, it's inevitable that we'll introduce systematic error.

Oddly (excuse the pun), i hadn't encountered the "1 pace = 1 step or 1 pace = 2 steps" question until it was raised here on SC just a few years ago.

Finally, like bill93, i confess to cheating. Being only 5ft-7in tall, i must have suffered from "small man syndrome" and pretended my strides were exactly 3.28ft long, for convenience!

pacing 2.5 ft step

My pace of 1=2.5 is just luck or happenstance. That is my natural stride. In my earlier days I tried 1=3" which is what my first party chief did, but I found it too un-natural and just plain hard. I'm short 5'7" and 2.5 is just right for me.

Ambidextrous Multi-tasker Pacing

I've always counted by 5s where every two steps equal 5'.
I suppose I'm also an ambidextrous multi-tasker since starting on either foot and carrying on a conversation while pacing isn't overwhelming... 😉

I call mine a "gait" and it kicks in when I start counting.

Lately it has not been working very well past 100ft.

😉

Ambidextrous Multi-tasker Pacing

I got my pace from the infamous 30" marching steps while in Army basic training.

Ambidextrous Multi-tasker Pacing

> I got my pace from the infamous 30" marching steps while in Army basic training.

Got mine from my Dad. He could pace 100', jab a machete into the ground, monument found...;-)

Lep-roita-lep

Those of you starting off on your right foot have obviously not been "adjusted" by a dedicated Marine drill sergeant at a tender young age. I still shudder to think of someone starting off walking on anything other than a left foot. If I had to count, using odd numbers for my right foot, I think I'd fall down. Always always always start with the left foot, and boot camp was a good many moons ago for me.

pacing 2.5 ft step

2.5' per step is also my natural pace, I don't have to adjust anything just walk. Maybe height does has something to do with it, similar to you I'm 5'6".

pacing 2.5 ft step

If anyone would have asked me I would have thought 90% of those responding would say a pace is 3 feet but obviously I am way wrong. I am also 5'7" but a 3' pace is what I have always done and I am quite comfortable with it.

Lep-roita-lep and 13 pebbles

I learned from an old man...start LEFT count RIGHT...20=100... Pebble in mouth...after 13 pebbles, SPIT them as far as you can down line...where they land, drive a stob...20 chain!

LOL
DDSM:whistle: :beer:

Boom.