How many miles do you walk at each park in one day?

[badkitty]

Aren't pedometers distorting the miles when you are on rides?

[sonamae80]

I'm another flip flop wearer. I have Teva flip flops and they are 100% more comfy than any tennies I have ever owned. They actually have some arch support. Love 'em!

Are you a fellow Mush wearer?! If so, Hello to my sister Mush wearer! Love, LOVE these flip flops! They are fantastic and my feet love them!

I too would think that rides would distort the pedometer reading...but maybe technology has furthered and they are making them different nowadays!?

[DisneyDog]

Can someone recommend a free iphone pedometer that won't eat up my battery life?

[CuteAsMinnie]

Can someone tell me that if I walk anywhere from 6-14 miles/day and never touch a burger or fries, why o why do I always gain 5+ pounds while at WDW????

Must be the water!

[Janmac]

I used to regularly walk 6 miles a day. I'm pretty sure our touring style at Disney is closer to that than something like 14 miles.

My phone's pedometer doesn't strike me as much of a pedometer. There's no way to set length of stride, and it seems much more like a timer. I had it turned on one day when I was cleaning up some trash from a construction project and I know I did not walk 3 miles. It just kept counting, even when I was standing still throwing scraps in the wheelbarrow.

As for eating at Disney, our extending family usually have about a third that gain weight and a third that lose weight and the last group are neutral - no gain or loss. I usually fall in the no gain or loss.

Jan

[Katzateer]

Very interesting -my answer is a lot since I have never kept track.

I wear crocs that seem to keep my knees and feet from hurting and if it rains, no big deal. I can get through the day with some wet clothes since I dress in layers but I hate to have wet feet.

[Nascfan]

I've always heard the general average is 6 - 10 miles per day. I can get on board with that.

[Ms. Mode]

I always tell people we walk about 4000 miles a day...that's what it feels like.

The up side is we can eat all that lovely food and never gain a pound!

[Kairi_7378]

We average about 10 a day. One day on our last trip we did 13. I was kind of cranky that night.

[MarkC]

I wear a high tech pedometer as part of a fitness program at work that rewards us for walking with gift cards-- a great deal indeed. On a normal day I average about 15,000 steps or 7.5 miles as I'm tall and have a long stride.

A normal Disney day has about 18,000-24,000 steps, but one day last summer I logged 30,430 steps, my all time record. That's 15+ miles in the July heat. Not bad for a 51 year old male.

[DNS]

We brought a pedometer once and we averaged about 9-10 miles per day.

We did the same and averaged 9 to 11 a day. And we started early and finished late. We tend to take mid day breaks now.

[EeyoresBestFriend]

It's soooo fantastic to be able to vacation, eat all that wonderful food and still go home in better shape than when we got there!!

I always chalk it up to the Magical Air in the parks!!

[A Big Kid]

For the pedometer crowd, Most likely, your measurements are over-estimated. Each step, your pedometer records a predetermined measurement. That measurement is a "normal" stride. When at WDW normal strides arent always taken; you walk in crowds, go up and down stairs/inclines, walk in cues/lines/turnstiles. All those are shorter than normal strides.

[Jillirose]

I sometimes see peeps wearing flip flops and I wonder how their feet can stand it!

Or super high heels......

[Gator]

Based on the size of the parks (cuz I'm interested in that kind of stuff) and what I walk/run at home, I guess that we walk about 8-10 miles each day. That is, unless we're at Epcot. Then it's about 14-16 miles a day. And I can always feel it at the end of an Epcot day. It's why I usually follow up a day at Epcot over at DHS - a small park with lots of sit down shows. Feels so good to sit on those days.

[wdwjoe]

I have tracked and saved this for our past two trips. This was during the Goofy Challenge, so normally we wouldn't walk 38 miles a day. But, when we weren't running or recovering from the run, we seemed to be around 15-16 miles per day for my wife and I.

5-Jan Arrival, Expo, Epcot 8.72
6-Jan 5k, DHS 13.21
7-Jan 1/2, Expo, MK 24.13
8-Jan Marathon, Epcot 38.27
9-Jan EPCOT 11.54
10-Jan MK 13.76
11-Jan AK, DTD, Run, Boma 15.48
12-Jan MK 15.61
13-Jan EPCOT 14.51
14-Jan MK, Epcot, Depart 8.04

[JerseyDad]

Can someone tell me that if I walk anywhere from 6-14 miles/day and never touch a burger or fries, why o why do I always gain 5+ pounds while at WDW????

Must be the water!

...unexplained weigh gain in the Orlando area has been attributed to a phenomenon called the "DW Factor".


...the "DW"..is for "Dole Whip"...not Disney World!!

[gottaluvtink]

I find it funny that people are insinuating that people who actually used pedometers are lying or something. Obviously, we all do Disney differently. I'm sure there are some people who walk very little because they are in no hurry and don't care if they don't do everything. Then there are others, who want to make every minute of their trip hitting everything. We walk from open to close everyday on our 7 day trips. After the parks close we walk at the resort, or sometimes head to Downtown Disney. I know other people who spend the majority of their trip at their resorts. Who cares? The question was, how many miles do YOU walk? I guess I don't understand the questioning by some?

[dnickels]

I find it funny that people are insinuating that people who actually used pedometers are lying or something. Obviously, we all do Disney differently. I'm sure there are some people who walk very little because they are in no hurry and don't care if they don't do everything. Then there are others, who want to make every minute of their trip hitting everything. We walk from open to close everyday on our 7 day trips. After the parks close we walk at the resort, or sometimes head to Downtown Disney. I know other people who spend the majority of their trip at their resorts. Who cares? The question was, how many miles do YOU walk? I guess I don't understand the questioning by some?

I don't think people are saying that others are lying, they're just saying that pedometers aren't always accurate, and our perceptions of how many miles we walk may be higher than the reality. The average walking speed is about 3.1 mph so just to hit 15 miles you're looking at 5 hours of non-stop walking. No shuffling in lines, no sitting on rides, no watching shows, etc. I know everyone has different touring styles, but if we were all covering as many miles as we think we are, then we'd be a little bit slimmer as a nation. The only way to really know would be for someone to take a surveyor's wheel with them and see what they come up with.

[mickeys_princess_mom]

I wear a high tech pedometer as part of a fitness program at work that rewards us for walking with gift cards-- a great deal indeed.

That's cool! Would love to hear more about that!