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"...וַיְמַהֵר דָּוִד וַיָּרָץ הַמַּעֲרָכָה לִקְרַאת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי" (David quickly ran up to the battle line to face the Philistine)

Now that's how you charge - with speed. Two words for speed - because he was sprinting very fast and managed to quickly cover much of the distance of the battlefield.

"...וַיְמַהֵר דָּוִד וַיָּרָץ הַמַּעֲרָכָה לִקְרַאת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי" (David quickly ran up to the battle line to face the Philistine) (ibid.)

Now that's how you charge - with speed. Two words for speed - to emphasize that he was sprinting very fast and managed to quickly cover much of the distance of the battlefield.

⁴ While it's true that he did have at least one long-distance weapon (either the javelin or the spear, or both, depending on how you interpret which weapon was which exactly and their intended uses), it's quite clear that he wouldn't have been able to handle it properly, because of his other weaknesses: poor eyesight, over-confidence and heavy armor. I believe it was from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzefat, that I heard that Goliath was both weighted down by his armor, and his bodily proportions were inhuman (i.e. though he was a giant, he was disproportionate in size to a regular human) which made him even more cumbersome, so much so that his shield wasn't held by him, but by another soldier.

⁴ While it's true that he did have at least one long-distance weapon (either the javelin or the spear, or both, depending on how you interpret which weapon was which exactly and their intended uses), it's quite clear that he wouldn't have been able to handle it properly, because of his other weaknesses: poor eyesight, over-confidence and heavy armor. I believe it was from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzefat, that I heard that Goliath was both weighted down by his armor, and his bodily proportions were inhuman (i.e. though he was a giant, he was disproportionate in size to a regular human) which made him even more cumbersome, so much so that his shield wasn't held by him, but by another soldier. However, as @Joshua has pointed out, this is an incorrect understanding of what a shield-bearer was. Nonetheless, Goliath's physical proportions also apparently encumbered him.

⁴ While it's true that he did have at least one long-distance weapon (either the javelin or the spear, depending on how you interpret which weapon was which exactly and their intended use), it's quite clear that he wouldn't have been able to handle it properly, because of his other weaknesses: poor eyesight, over-confidence and heavy armor. I believe it was from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzefat, that I heard that Goliath was both weighted down by his armor, and his bodily proportions were inhuman (i.e. though he was a giant, he was disproportionate in size to a regular human) which made him even more cumbersome, so much so that his shield wasn't held by him, but by another soldier.

⁴ While it's true that he did have at least one long-distance weapon (either the javelin or the spear, or both, depending on how you interpret which weapon was which exactly and their intended uses), it's quite clear that he wouldn't have been able to handle it properly, because of his other weaknesses: poor eyesight, over-confidence and heavy armor. I believe it was from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzefat, that I heard that Goliath was both weighted down by his armor, and his bodily proportions were inhuman (i.e. though he was a giant, he was disproportionate in size to a regular human) which made him even more cumbersome, so much so that his shield wasn't held by him, but by another soldier.