Run Mary, Run!

I really kicked some butt on the treadmill this morning....well...for me.  I've been running* outside for the last week and its hilly....nothing flat.  It goes between steep hills and long grades....it stinks.  But I'm told it will do good things for my rear end.

I don't run* fast.  I blame it on my short legs.  This is a perfectly reasonable excuse, I might add, because short legs mean that I take short strides, more strides make a mile, etc.  That could be it...or I'm just slow.  Either way....

I don't run* far.  Unless distance is relative to stride? 

I took a break and did some very basic calculations:

The average American woman is 66 inches tall with a stride of 30 inches.  Therefore it would take her 2112 strides to go a mile.

I've not measured my stride but I do know my height, so I've calculate my stride to be about 28 inches.  Taking me 2266 strides to go a mile.  If I only went 2112 strides that would leave me seven-hundredths shy of a mile. So... under the premise that miles are measured in strides:  a mile to an average woman is 5280 feet, a mile for me is only 4921 feet.  For every average mile I run I should get a "credit" towards future miles..don't you think?

Already I am better in math than I am at running*. 

* The term "run" or "running" is used very loosely by this author.