How deal with the insane run speed of mobs

[qwrtish]

Strafe running was enough to run as fast as mobs on live if you were ahead of them. You only had to jump and strafe if you were fighting then decided to run and needed to put distance between you and them. I'm not sure why so many people are getting that confused -- you never had to constantly jump, although everyone probably did because they were terrified (I know I did).