Frankly, I suspect you're both wanking here. I know there are some
macho types who *assume* their pace is one metre, but most barely make
it to one yard -- and as for those Romans with a pace of over 5 feet,
well they were either bloody big *******s, or they were running.

Clearly your Latin teacher didn't do a very good job!

A Roman pace was the distance between two fallings of the same foot.

The next time you literally "take a hike" start counting the landings of
your right foot. The 1000 paces measure is pretty good!