Beaver Strides -- Get Your Move On!!

Because everyone varies in pace and stride length, here is a way to calculate your own personal steps to miles!

1. Wear the pedometer and walk one lap around a 400-meter track
2. 400 meter Track Locations:
   • Corvallis High School: 836 NW 11th / Behind Fred Meyers)
   • Crescent Valley High School: 4444 NW Highland
3. Multiply the number of steps you take in one lap (400 meters) by 4 to see how many steps you take in one mile.
4. Use this number to figure out total distance per day by dividing your total daily steps by the number of steps you take in one mile.

Jan wears her pedometer for a walk around the quarter-mile school track and it counts 473 steps.

She multiplies 473 by four, to estimate that she takes about 1,892 steps a mile. (For easier math, she calls it 1900 steps)

On Monday evening, her pedometer reads 6,685 steps.

Jan divides 6,685 by 1900, and gets 3.5, or about three and a half miles walked.

473    = Average Steps for 1 lap around the track
 X 4    = laps for one mile
1892    = 1900 for easier math

6685    = Number of steps on
Monday 1900    = Number of steps taken in a mile

3.5     = 3 and ½ Miles walked on Monday