Steps to distance converter
Convert a step count to kilometers or miles, or a distance to steps, for your stride length.
That's 1.52× as far as a 5K run, while a half marathon is 2.8× farther. Walking, that takes about 91.44 minutes and burns about 457.2 kcal.
What it means
How far is that?
Stride means one step, heel to heel. Measure yours: walk 10 steps and divide the distance by 10. Time and calories are rough averages for a 70 kg walker at 5 km/h.
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Three things worth knowing
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2,000 steps a mile
About 2,000 walking steps make a mile, 1,300 a kilometer.
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The 10,000-step goal
The 10,000 target comes from a 1965 Japanese pedometer, the manpo-kei (“10,000-step meter”); later studies find benefits from about 7,000 steps a day.
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Steps are not strides
A stride in running terms is two steps (left and right). This converter counts single steps, as phones and watches do.
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About steps and stride
Distance is steps × stride length. An average adult’s walking step is about 76 cm (2.5 ft), so 10,000 steps is about 7.6 km or 4.7 miles, and a mile is about 2,100 steps. Taller people and runners take longer strides.