How fast to walk

[abigailsweetie]

Does anyone know a calculation to know how fast you walked? I need to know because I do loads of walking at work in the coffee shop but also I have to walk from my grans into town everyday for other reasons blahblah. I want to work out how fast I've done the 2 miles into town so I know what I've burnt

[Veganelf]

If you know the exact distance (ie you mentioned 2 miles) then time yourself and take the total number of minutes it took you to go the measured distance and divide by the number of miles. That gives you the minutes per mile time (ie when I jog I usually jog a 12-10 minute mile). Once you know how many minutes it takes you to walk the mile you can measure in minutes per mile OR divide that time into 60 to get miles per hour. (ie my 10 minute mile would be divided into 60 minutes to get 6 miles per hour).

So, I jog 10 minute miles OR jog at a 6 mph pace.

If you don't know the distance (ie in the coffee shop), then I would recommend getting a pedomiter. At least you will know how many steps you took and there are calculators on line for how many average calories are burned per 1000 steps or whatever.