He'll do anything to overstride his competitors. From LearnThat.org.
I see many runners overstride and then straighten their knees when they land. From Wordnik.com. [ChiRunning] Reference
Lifting your knees, as we have mentioned, is not only inefficient, it can cause you to overstride. From Wordnik.com. [ChiRunning] Reference
Expecting to have to moderate their pace so as not to overstride their diminutive hosts, the travelers found themselves having to hurry to keep up, so swift were the Swick's feathered earthbound mounts. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Now, our opposites do far overmatch us and overstride us in contention; for, 1. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
These haughty barons who overstride the world, what are they in the day of adversity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference
A lot of guys were tending to overstride a little bit, which has a tendency to put some strain on the hamstring. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle-Telegram] Reference
Your legs overstride, your arms splay like a sprinkler, and you likely end up injured (or at least frustrated because you never get faster). From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Don't have them reach and overstride to increase stride length, but rather have them push against the ground and let the foot land underneath the center of gravity. From Wordnik.com. [CrossFit Corona] Reference
In which dedication, seeing there was no yearly remembrance by solemnity of feasts, not so much as one day, it is evident that the yearly celebration of this feast for eight days, was not compassed by that Spirit that Solomon and the captivity were directed by; which Spirit, when it dwelt more plentifully in Solomon, and in the prophets that stood at the stern of the captivity’s dedication, than it did in Judas, it was in him so much the more presumptuous, as having a shorter leg than they, he durst in that matter overstride them, and his rashness is so much the more aggravated, as each of them, for the building of the whole temple, with all the implements and furniture thereof, made no feast to renew the annual memory, where Judas only for renewment of the altar, and of certain other decayed places of the temple, instituted this great solemnity.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
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