Miles Walked per Week/Month

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  • freew67
    freew67 Posts: 348 Member
    I use Map My Run and while it does show cals burned, its still not as good as a heart rate monitor. If Im walking its turned on. Granted, I like to look at numbers. lol

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  • missalice7
    missalice7 Posts: 5
    I walk an average of 3.2 miles everyday.
  • ricky_j_b
    ricky_j_b Posts: 64 Member
    go buy a pedometer,my wife and I walk 10,000 steps everyday at a minumum.Been doing this since 2009 and I am up to 14 million steps, 10,000 miles,35,000 minutes of walking, 900,000 cals burned, 50,000 grams of fan,but hey who is counting,lol.I am currently walking 10 miles a day,20,000 steps min,70 miles a week,,,
  • FruitLoop05317
    FruitLoop05317 Posts: 229
    bump for later!!
  • mommyslilmen
    mommyslilmen Posts: 9 Member
    I walk 4 miles every other day. I try to stay within an hour and am working on cutting my time, minute by minute. I have a couple of 5K walk/run races that I'm participating in next month and am just wanting to beat my personal time. Still trying to decide if I want to challenge myself to a 10K instead of one of the 5K's...we'll see, still have some time before I need to register.
    Walking is great! I don't see myself being able to jog or run in the near future, but maybe after I've lost 45lbs and I'm at my goal weight, then I'll feel more like running, or maybe not. =)
  • KrazyAsianNic
    KrazyAsianNic Posts: 1,227 Member
    I like to make goals of just doing a certain route x times a week. However, I'm currently trying to push through w1d1 of the c25k
  • Keiko385
    Keiko385 Posts: 514 Member
    I'm a lunchtime walker, 35-40 minutes which gives me about 2 miles per day, add in walking the dogs and it adds up. I use the Nike+ app on my Iphone it tracks my walks with a GPS and maps it, shows calories burned, it also lets me set little goals for myself, go further, faster etc. I just ordered a treadmill to use in the winter as I know I wont go out in sub zero weather..I'm such a wimp
  • Tickateeboo
    Tickateeboo Posts: 132 Member
    go buy a pedometer,my wife and I walk 10,000 steps everyday at a minumum.Been doing this since 2009 and I am up to 14 million steps, 10,000 miles,35,000 minutes of walking, 900,000 cals burned, 50,000 grams of fan,but hey who is counting,lol.I am currently walking 10 miles a day,20,000 steps min,70 miles a week,,,

    10 miles a day? Wow, that's amazing. I wouldn't have time for that! The pedometer sounds like a good idea, though - gives you a few goals to reach and such like...
  • Tickateeboo
    Tickateeboo Posts: 132 Member
    I'm a lunchtime walker, 35-40 minutes which gives me about 2 miles per day, add in walking the dogs and it adds up. I use the Nike+ app on my Iphone it tracks my walks with a GPS and maps it, shows calories burned, it also lets me set little goals for myself, go further, faster etc. I just ordered a treadmill to use in the winter as I know I wont go out in sub zero weather..I'm such a wimp

    Yes! Treadmills are essential, as you can say 'no matter what the weather, I'll go on a walk' you manage to talk yourself out of it. :smile:
  • Tickateeboo
    Tickateeboo Posts: 132 Member
    I walk 4 miles every other day. I try to stay within an hour and am working on cutting my time, minute by minute. I have a couple of 5K walk/run races that I'm participating in next month and am just wanting to beat my personal time. Still trying to decide if I want to challenge myself to a 10K instead of one of the 5K's...we'll see, still have some time before I need to register.
    Walking is great! I don't see myself being able to jog or run in the near future, but maybe after I've lost 45lbs and I'm at my goal weight, then I'll feel more like running, or maybe not. =)

    Wow - I do 4 miles in about 71 minutes at the moment - that's some serious pace you've got going on! :laugh:
  • opuntia
    opuntia Posts: 860 Member
    At the moment I'm not walking a lot, as it's the holidays and so I'm not walking to work (although I went for a 15-mile walk in the woods the other day), but when I'm working, I walk between 3 and 6 miles a day, Monday to Friday. At the weekends I walk about 2 miles a day, and an occasional 15-mile walk.
  • Tickateeboo
    Tickateeboo Posts: 132 Member
    Thanks for all the posts.

    Going to set myself a goal of 50 miles a month (with a few thrown in for the end of August).

    That's an aim of 220 miles until Dec 31st this year.

    Done 7 so far (since Friday).
  • sisterphonetica
    sisterphonetica Posts: 59 Member
    would like to run...because of bad feet I can't so I walk about 3mile at a brisk pace every other day. It's working fine for me. Also for anybody who doesn't know you can use google earth to map out your walk and tell you how many miles you will be doing and then you can store it.

    Hey, I have bad feet too (rheumatoid arthritis). There's no way I can run but walking I can do most of the time. My ambition is to find shoes that allow me to do Zumba and DANCE !

    You can get special trainers - they stick you on a treadmill and get you trainers to work with your feet, so you don't suffer from aches and pains. Quite pricey though (well, £100 - $160 US - $155 Canadian).

    "Special" trainers don't work for me, my feet are VERY complicated. The only comfy shoes I have are flexible clogs. Waiting to try MBTs out in the specialist footwear shop, but they're really expensive.
  • sisterphonetica
    sisterphonetica Posts: 59 Member
    Another suggestion: get waterproofs, really good ones, and get outside whatever the weather. It's good for you! I realise I am probably a bit freakish in that I don't mind heavy rain, cold, wind at all. I'm more likely to complain when it's sunny!
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    I walk /stand / move every day and it all gets recorded by my nike fuel band. I make sure I hit a minimum of 3000 Nike fuel credits a day, with weekends and extra long walks on weekends or when I can. I do maybe 10-15 minutes of yoga a day. That's like a minimum of 2 miles per day, but I generally average about 18 miles a week. (I got the nike fuel band because it's a bracelet, I washed far too many pedometers to attempt a fitbit, but my husband has one he loves, and the fitbit has a lot more features).

    So my calorie calculator on MFP is set to sedentary, because my job requires 6-8 hours a day behind a desk. I live in Houston, so I end up walking the tunnels downtown or the Galleria mall due to weather. I take about 2-4 walk breaks a day at work. If I am not taking a client to lunch, I walk to lunch for 20 minutes, eat for 20 minutes, walk back to work for 20 minutes.

    Walking counts, and I lost 40 pounds just walking and some very light yoga. I am maintaining well. But do admit to avoiding bread,pasta, rice and potatoes like crazy.
  • Lyssa62
    Lyssa62 Posts: 930 Member

    Hey, I have bad feet too (rheumatoid arthritis). There's no way I can run but walking I can do most of the time. My ambition is to find shoes that allow me to do Zumba and DANCE !

    I am totally in love with my shape up shoes..I know others here will tell hell stories of them. For me they have made a HUGE difference. I can brisk walk the 3 miles and my feet haven't hurt since day 1 of wearing them. I was stupid and headed right out the door the first day with them...came home, nothing hurt, no blisters NOTHING. I LOVE LOVE THEM...and I have signed up for a zumba class. I want to dance so bad..I just figure when parts come I know my toes and feet can't handle I'll make a move up :) It's good to meet you!!
  • Lyssa62
    Lyssa62 Posts: 930 Member
    Hi Punkmom (cool name btw),

    Yes, apart from the obvious 'boobs all over the damn place' thing, I have a ****y toe, which gives me jip after a while.

    thank you :) and LOL oh yeah I don't even want to know what would be flinging around if I took off in a sprint. nobody needs to see that ;) Plus I used to sprain my ankles all the time as a kid ( I have always had freakishly small ankles and wrists)...and I was way heavier in high school than even now...and those poor little ankles couldn't take me on a run. I could see being almost 50 and falling down and spraining an ankle or worse yet busting a hip which at least I didn't have to worry about back then ;)

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