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I would suggest focusing more on your heart rate and ability to breathe rather than on how long it takes you to walk a mile. As your conditioning improves so will the timing
I've never timed myself walking (and I do walk/trot with the dogs most days) but I'm often told that I walk "too fast." So I'm thinking I probably walk a mile a bit faster than average.
For an average person 20 minutes. My mother walked at about 25 minutes per mile into her 80's. Couldn't get friends to do it, they needed to rest after a quarter mile.
I am 77 years old and walk 2 miles in 45 minutes or about 2.67 MPH. Don't know if I can boost speed up to 3 MPH as I feel I am walking as fast as I can. I don't try running or jogging. I walk 2 miles in the A.M. and walk about 3/4 mile in the P.M. at a slower pace.
It depends on what you mean by walking. I find, hiking, in rugged territory, with substantial elevation variance, I inevitably average somewhere between 2-3mph, usually on the lower end of that. This has been the same when I've been in bad and good shape.
Of course, walking on flat ground / pavement is probably a lot faster.
I average between 3.5 and 4.5 miles per hour, after I've warmed up. But some days I struggle to truck along at 3 miles an hour. Depends on what's going on in my head, I guess. Or my knees.
4.5 mph for walking? I have a short stride and don't think I could ever walk that fast.
I knew a competitive walker that could walk a mile I'm 6:30 and my grandpa would take about an hour to do the same if you could get him to go that far. So add 6.5 + 60 and divide by 2 and you get 33:15 as an average. But that's just crazy talk, so you probably meant the "mode", which is more like what it says here:
The World Book Encyclopedia. Volume 21. Chicago: World Book, 2000. "A nonracer walks 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) in 15 to 20 minutes."
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