MUD Mired in time...

Let's review, just to see how useless it is aside from suggesting height & weight of the walker.

1 Gait cycle : Walking is “ periodic ”, as with a clock, it repeats as it goes round again, and again... A value series that repeats. It has two features, distance traversed and speed (time required for each cycle).

Fist, we identify ONE specific walking cycle. Here, A is at the back edge of the right heel.

C is similar in that it is the back edge of the right heel once again. That defines a typical single unit of the repeating cycle . The whole thing we call ‘gait’ (not jumping or making funny faces). But not all gait is ‘walking’ [more about that later]. If only we knew how how much time it took for right heel to next right heel mud print to happen, we would then also know the PERIOD (the name for the time it took for one full cycle).