In order to determine how many miles you are walking, it’s important to know how long your stride is. Here is a simple method for figuring out your stride length:
Using a tape measure, mark off a distance that is 50 feet long, using masking tape to mark the beginning and end of this segment.
Next, walk the fifty feet, counting how many steps it takes you to do so.
Divide 50 by the number of steps you took. Now you know your stride length!
To see how many miles you have walked in a given day, multiply the number of steps you took by your stride length. This will tell you how many feet you walked. Divide this number by 5280 (the number of feet in a mile) to get the number of miles you walked today. Happy trails!
