Indoor Walk a Marathon in a Month Challenge

Fancy walking a marathon? This marathon challenge is to walk a marathon indoors, in your own home. Sorry, no medals for this marathon, just the satisfaction of completing a challenge. Ready? Let’s do this.

Please note that I’m not a health or fitness expert. I don’t typically like the idea of exercising. I’m a Mindset Coach and like to find easy (ish) and fun ways to add some exercise into my day.

Here are some key facts

A Marathon is 26 miles long, well actually it’s 26.2 and a bit. It’s all very confusing and my maths is pretty rubbish so I’m going with 26 miles. If you want to do the maths more precisely, go ahead.

According to The Walking Site An average person has a stride length of approximately 2.1 to 2.5 feet. That means that it takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile. As I’m not very tall I’m going to overestimate this one and say I need to walk 2100 steps per 1 mile.

26 (miles) X 2100 (Steps) = 54600

Now, if you really want to then you can, of course, go full out and do this in one day but I’ve decided to make this challenge a month-long challenge. You can choose your own timeline.

Your Pedometer

Your pedometer will be key to this challenge, unlike with my steps challenge, you will only wear your pedometer when you’re doing your marathon walking. So don’t pop it on in the morning and take it off at bedtime counting every random step you take.

I’m going to assume there are 30 days in the month. 54600 steps divided by 30 days is 1820 steps per day.

The Steps

Look, nobody is going to come and measure your step distance or anything like that and ideally, you will be walking around your home (or garden) to do this challenge but if you don’t have much space just walk on the spot. It’s all good.

Of course, you can clock up your steps in the great outdoors too if you want. I just wanted to show you how to build up your steps from your own home.

Your Daily Step Count Printout

If you want to, you can download a daily step count printout to keep a track of your daily steps and your total steps. You don’t need to but if you’re like me and like to see it all written down to see your progress, here’s the download >> Walk A Marathon In A Month Tracker

You’ll have space to track your daily steps and the total steps so far each day.

Remember that this challenge is designed to be taken over 30 days. If you want to you can absolutely do this challenge in less time, just remember to only put your pedometer on when you’re doing your marathon steps.

Make sure you drink your water

As with any marathon, it’s super important to keep yourself nicely hydrated, so please make sure you do have water to hand during your Indoor Marathon.

Drinking water is always good for your health and well-being. Drink regularly and not just when you’re thirsty

What if I miss a day

It’s fine, there are no strict rules, add more steps the next few days, double up the next day… as long as you reach 54600 steps by the end of the 30 days, you’re a winner.

Have fun

This challenge is meant to be fun. It’s a way to get more active, improve your fitness levels and improve your health.

More steps/walking challenges

I do love a challenge, it helps to motivate me and I hope that’s exactly what this challenge does for you. Here are some more walking and steps challenges you might like…

• 10,000 Daily Steps Challenge 10,000 steps is the amount that many health organizations recommend daily for good health
• Water and walking challenge – This is my most popular challenge on the blog
• 12,000 steps challenge Give yourself a boost with more steps
• 70,000 steps in 7 days This challenge allows you to do more steps on some days and fewer on others to average out at 10,000 steps a day over the course of a week

Indoor workouts

As you’ve decided to read this blog post on walking a marathon indoors, I thought you might also like to take a look at My favourite indoor workouts (including indoor walking workouts).

Reminder of the Walk A Marathon Indoor Challenge

Here are the key facts…

• Walk an average of 1820 steps daily for 30 days
• Get the steps tracker printable
• Total steps 54600

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I’d love to hear how you get on with this Walk A Marathon In A Month Challenge. As I said at the beginning, there are no medals but I’d love to congratulate you on completing this challenge.

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