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by foxyv 1030 days ago
I used to teach orienteering and scout skills when I was a teenager. One of the first things we did was measure how long each kid's natural pace was so they could know how to pace out a distance. If the course said 600ft and the kid knows their pace was 3 feet then they would take 200 paces or 400 steps. Typically, unless you were a runt like me it almost always came out to 5 feet. Just kind of the way people work. 2.5 feet a step. Roughly 5 feet or 1.5 meters per pace.

It always got complicated with obstacles though. Especially since most of them didn't know how to do trigonometry yet. We usually just had them estimate which they got pretty good at after a few hours of counting paces.