I don't know about anyone else, but I never really cared about stride lengths or cadence etc. All I care about is, how fast I can recover after a hard session, and ways to improve my time. This year is the first time I have ever used a coach for my Comrades training. Seeing that my last Comrades was 10 years ago, I thought, maybe he can help me get back into shape. And I as actually surprised how the training has changed from 10 years ago. I only did time based training. But maybe you have a point there. Look at all those Kenyans, they have huge stride lengths.
