Converting Steps Into Mileage
One mile is 5280 feet. The average stride varies from about two to
three feet (two for women, three for men). With a two-foot stride, you
would walk a mile in 2640 steps. With a stride of three-feet, it would
only take 1760 steps. This is quite a bit of difference. If you really
want to know how many steps you need to take to walk one mile, you
should measure your own stride.
There are several ways to measure your stride length. Here is one
way:
Measure a length of twenty feet that you can walk. Start a few steps
before the beginning of your 20-foot length to get into your walking
rhythm and then count the steps you take from the beginning of the
length until one of your feet crosses the “finish” line. Do this three or
four times, and then find the average of all those trials.
For example:
Trial 1 --- 13 steps
Trial 2 --- 14 steps
Trial 3 --- 11 steps
Trial 4 --- 13 steps
Add the total steps and divide by 4. In this case, 13 + 14 + 11 + 13 =
51. Divide 51 by 4 and you get 12.7, which can be rounded up to 13.
Next, divide the 20 feet by the 13 steps and the result is 1.5 feet. So,
this person’s stride length is 18 inches, or 1.5 feet.
To determine how many steps it would take to cover one mile, divide
5280 by the stride length of 1.5 (you want to use feet for both, not feet
for one and inches for the other). The result is that it takes 3520 steps
for this person to walk one mile.
Once you know your stride length, use the chart on the following
website to determine how many steps you take to walk a mile:
http://www.walk4life.com/customerservice/forms_stepstomiles.aspx
Steps to Miles Conversion Table
Stride (in
feet/inches)
FT/Mile
Steps/Mile
1
5280
5280
1.1
5280
4874
1.2
5280
4526
1.3
5280
4224
1.4
5280
3960
1.5
5280
3727
1.6
5280
3520
1.7
5280
3335
1.8
5280
3168
1.9
5280
3017
1.10
5280
2880
1.11
5280
2755
2
5280
2640
2.1
5280
2534
2.2
5280
2437
2.3
5280
2347
2.4
5280
2263
2.5
5280
2185
2.6
5280
2112
2.7
5280
2044
2.8
5280
1980
2.9
5280
1920
2.10
5280
1864
2.11
5280
1810
3
5280
1760
3.1
5280
1712
3.2
5280
1667
3.3
5280
1625
3.4
5280
1584
3.5
5280
1545
3.6
5280
1508
3.7
5280
1473
3.8
5280
1440
3.9
5280
1408
3.10
5280
1377
3.11
5280
1348
4
5280
1320
4.1
5280
1293
4.2
5280
1267
4.3
5280
1242
4.4
5280
1218
4.5
5280
1195
4.6
5280
1173
4.7
5280
1152
4.8
5280
1131
4.9
5280
4.10
5280
1112
1092
4.11
5280
1074
5
5280
1056
5.1
5280
1039
5.2
5280
1022
5.3
5280
1006
5.4
5280
990
5.5
5280
975
5.6
5280
960
5.7
5280
946
5.8
5280
932
5.9
5280
918
5.10
5280
905
5.11
5280
892
6
5280
880
6.1
5280
868
6.2
5280
865
6.3
5280
845
6.4
5280
834
6.5
5280
823
6.6
5280
812
6.7
5280
802
6.8
5280
792
6.9
5280
782
6.10
5280
773
6.11
5280
763
7
5280
754