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Does anyone know how many steps approx. equal a mile? Have got a walk - o - metre thing and would like to know what other conversions there are?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A few months ago, there was a big health 'thing' about people not exercising enough. Even walking, it was suggested, was a perfectly good way of exercising. As a result, quite a few well-known people, including MPs etc, were given pedometers and the instruction that they should try to take 10,000 steps per day with a view to covering at least three miles. If that was an accurate comparison, then 3 to 3� thousand steps would represent one mile.
Obviously, though, a lady of 5'1" will have a very different pace-length from a male athlete of 6'7"! Pedometers are usually calibrated by taking, say, 15 normal steps along your garden path - or wherever - and using a tape to measure the distance. Dividing by 15 then gives you your own personal step-length. It's easy enough then to calculate exactly how many steps you need to cover a mile.