The Relationships between Stride Length, Stride Frequency and Running Speed in Distance Running.

Abstract

One hundred-forty healty college students (untrained male 18 years old) were employed as the subject. (shown in Table 1.) Running time, stride length and stride frequency during 3200 meter run were measured on a track, once a week over a seven week period. The results obtained were as follows : Stride length and stride frequency of 3200 meter run were increased linearly by two to seven percent for all subjects after seven weeks of training as the running speed increased. Increase in running speed was dependent much more on increase in stride length than that of stride frequency.