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Old Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:36am
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Originally Posted by Bad Zebra View Post
. I have found that about 2200 steps equals a mile for me. A varsity boys game usually logs about 2.3 miles. I've been wearing it this summer for youth games on Saturday mornings. I've logged 12,000-14,000 steps over a 4 game stretch. It also estimates calories burned which is what I really purchased it for.
The one thing you have to be careful of when converting steps to distance is that the nature of the steps for an official is not likely to match those used to calibrate the distance. We take a lot of small adjustment steps as referees and they'll get counted the same as a full stride. It may well be 2.3 miles but I don't think you can rely on the distance....or for that matter the calories. They'll probably be overestimated.
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