If you track your daily step count...

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AIBU to ask how many steps equates to what distance for you, how long that takes you (if you know) and your height?

I’m 5’ 5 and a half. 1.6 miles is around 3,000 steps but that’s with small children in tow so maybe smaller steps.

I'm 5'11
Workdays I average between 5k-8k
Days off and weekends averages 10k-14k
We have two children under 9 that are good walkers. We walk a lot and I'm always moving around the house.
Walk both kids to school and back on my days off which boosts my count by 1500 steps.

Our walk to and from school is 1.4 miles and that's usually around 4k steps

I'm 5'6', 63. Target is 6,000 but usually hit anywhere between 6k and 11k. 18,000 steps is around 14km
10,000 is usually assessed as 5km

I averaged 11 k to 14k steps a day...did 16 k a day ago. I do more during the week to the weekend. It shocked me how much I walk and can't understand why I'm not stick thin. I'm a ahp and a mum who walks to school. I'm 5 foot 4

12,000 steps is 5 miles for me. I've averaged around 22,000 steps per day this week and that's fairly typical for me.

I don't know for walking but jogging I usually hit 10k steps around 8km. I'm about 5'6

I'm 5ft 9. 1 mile is approx 2000 steps and takes 16 mins.

I'm 5'6" and one mile equals 2000 steps.

I am doing c. 8,200 a day and that’s about 5.1km on average per day. I’m 160cm or 5 foot 3.
That’s a bit less than I did last year where I averaged 5.5km a day - I was aiming to walk 2022kms in the year and did achieve it. Have set myself a target of 2023 this year so will need to do some long walks to bring the average up.

I do between 8000 and 10000 a day which for me, at 5'3" is 3.5 to 4.5 miles.

2500 steps per mile.

5 foot 8.

5'5", 18,000 steps = 8.5 miles

5ft 8- 3 miles = approx 5500-6000 steps

A little over 2,000 - but I'm over 6", most of me being leg!

I'm 5.5 and to the end of my road it's 1k which is about 1500 steps.

I'm starting to try to do 10k steps a say, but for some reason my phone step tracker advises 6k as the ideal.
But what I'd like to know is where does this figure come from? Is it something plucked from the air, like eating 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, or drinking 2 litres of water.

Yes it's about the same walking for me

7km (4.35miles) is around 10000 steps for me at 5'8

I do between 13 and 14k steps a day and that's usually about 6 miles. I'm 5"8

5'3" 10000 steps is 5k, aim for 15-20k daily.

I'm 5'1, I need to walk at least 4 miles to get to 10k steps, but if I'm running then I need to go a bit further.

Approx:

7km = 10k steps (running)
6km = 10k steps (walking)

Around 5 miles to hit 10k steps for me (I have pretty short legs).

"The idea of walking 10,000 steps a day was invented as part of the marketing campaign for an early pedometer ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The Japanese character for 10,000 looks rather like a person walking so the device was called the Manpo-kei or 10,000 steps meter."

Most phones come with pre-set targets, but you can change them manually and also enter your height, weight and sometimes stride length to get more accurate readings and goal reminders etc.