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[NC68]

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?

[jfortytwo]

my stride is aprox 1 yard, there are 1760 yards in a mile. i hope this helps

[Ewood27]

I believe a military marching pace is 30 inches.  That makes 2112 paces to the mile.  Adjust that according to how big you are relative to a typical male soldier.

[Mattk]

go to a running track and walk 1 lap(400m) with your walk-o-metre fitted then times the number by 4 to give you how many of your steps there are in 1mile

[Quizmonster]

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. 

[bernardo]

The origin of the word "mile" is mille passuum which is Latin for a thousand paces.  A pace is from one foot to the other and then from the other foot back to the first foot (i.e. two steps).  You will find that it is far easier to count the paces rather than the steps.  A Roman mile was 5,000 feet (a pace being five feet) and the modern mile is 5280 feet, so it's not much difference.  If you only want an approximate amount, then 1000 paces would be fine.