Imagine the width of your size 15 shoe. Now imagine them as long as size 7 shoes but still just as wide.
That’s an actual shoe size. It’s called 7EEEEEE.
Most folks don’t even realize it exists.
Guess how I know?
I can accidentally mash all three pedals with one shoe.
The answer to your question, for me, at least, is to ignore the “conventional” direction on heal-toe and make up my own.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Heinlein’s Corollary: Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
The Reddit Conjecture: Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Worf’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by laziness.
Worf’s Identity: Sufficiently advanced laziness is indistinguishable from stupidity
Worf's Law: Once you've mitigated risk from stupidity and laziness in your endeavors, failure is usually the result of insufficient imagination.
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