So it really IS true -- running is harder for some of us!

[emily_in_nc]

Isn't this referring to the proportion of lower leg to upper leg length? Not that someone is necessarily taller. Just my take on it.

Hmmm, I can't tell. The word "proportion" is not used, so I took it to mean the actual lower leg length -- the area of that part of the body, as it were. And since taller folks tend to have taller lower legs.... but I haven't read the original study, just the blurb in the Mirkin newsletter.

If your interpretation is correct, I'm still running-challenged as I have long femurs for my (short) height!

Emily