High Vs Low Cadence Running | Is There A Perfect Cadence For Running Speed?

Running cadence is the number of steps you take per minute, combined with stride length, which determines how fast you travel. It would therefore seem logical that the higher your running cadence the better? Mark and Heather are going to put their run cadence to the test!

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Running cadence is the number of steps you take per minute combined with stride length determines how fast you travel. It would therefore seem logical that the higher your running cadence the better.

That’s true to a certain extent but it isn’t quite that simple. Mark and Heather are going to look in more detail at the effect of a low cadence compared to a high cadence on our running gait efficiency.

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