A 20 min mile is a good moderate pace. For me, I walk on my "easy" workout day. Stairs or intervals are my harder workouts. Do what works for you.

I walk slowly. There's a few reasons for that. 1. I like to woolgather when I walk. 2. I am usually walking a puppy and a disabled kid. 3. It's nice outside.

I can walk fast, if I have to, I just prefer not to. I would say a mile every 20 minutes is the average.

When I am by myself on a walking workout, I average a 16-17 minute mile. When I'm with someone else, we are closer to a 13-14 minute mile.

I generally walk 3-5 miles a day.

I'd say anywhere from 17-20 minutes/mile. No hurry, ever, just go at whatever pace my body goes.

I usually do 17-18 minute miles walking 10 miles/day. If I go to 15 minutes I feel like I'm speedwalking, and am more comfortable jogging.

I walk about 3.5 to 8 miles a day, three to five days a week. It takes me an hour to walk 3.5 miles, including stopping at some stoplights along my route.

I walk my dog between 4 and 6 miles a day -- with the starts and stops, we do an average of 3.5 miles per hour. I take advantage of the pauses to check in on my yogic breathing patterns and my posture, maybe do some static stretches.

I walk to work and back and it's a 3.5 mile journey. I normally do it in around 40 -50 minutes depending on whether I feel like strolling or walking quickly.

I walk to work daily on Calgary's hilly paths - about 2.75km in 25 minutes, or, around 14.7 minute miles.

When I was thru-hiking we averaged 3 to 3.5 mph pretty-much all the time. I'm typing at a standing desk right now, going about 1mph. I usually top out at 1.6 on this. Much faster and I can't concentrate on my work.

I try to walk the dog around the neighborhood four or five times a week. It's about 1.25 miles and takes about 20 to 25 minutes with a few potty breaks and one water break for the dog. I like to walk fast, the dog--not so much!

I've heard that 3 mph on pavement is average- I'm a bit faster than that, but not by a lot. A good average for hiking is 2 mph.

4.2 ~ 4.5 miles/hour.

I walk 7 miles a day and try to hit 12 minute miles. I didn't do that until I found out that walking slowly burns far fewer calories than a fast walk. A 2.5 mph walk will burn about half the calories of a 5 mph walk (for each mile). For me, one mile at 2.5 mph burns about 52 calories and at 5 mph 102 calories.

I walk 6.7 miles a day on average, and walk a 15 minute mile out in the street/the park.

Never thought about how fast I walk, I just walk when I feel like walking, once every morning for 20-30min, then during the day I often make random trips to town or the market, either for WiFi or to browse for an excuse to walk and get out of the house, as it feels like a dungeon inside if I stay in too long. I love the sun and can't get enough of it, the hotter the better. I find forcing yourself to walk faster than your normal pace, or forced running everyday stresses you out. It stresses me and my body out, and makes it a chore, something not to look forwards to. A walk at a pace I feel comfortable with at the current moment I find helps me look forwards to it and enjoy it. I mainly walk outside to get the sunlight which I love so much, to keep my body moving without stressing my mind and body.

I generally do about 4mph (or a 15 min. mile). Some days I'll go slower or faster depending upon my energy level and the weather conditions. Like another poster noted, I walk on my "rest" days (every other day). My non-rest days involve some sort of HIIT routine (I like to keep it short and varied).

I would suggest, at the very least, a light warm-up of squats, lunges, leg swings before walking at this rate and a few minutes of leg stretches post-walk as well. Check out NERD Fitness - lots of information on that site - you could get lost.

I do about 20mins/mile with a few bursts: fun part is avoiding tourists, or smokers. :)

The tourists look like they're in a trance, looking up, starry-eyed jaw agape. I can understand the awe, but I wish they'd come out outside of rush hour instead, especially when there's a family of four, holding hands or walking slowly should to shoulder, and sometimes they even drag luggage behind them. The most idiotic thing I've seen is for them to take pictures of stores. Mind you, not rare stores, but just generic stores, or fast food restaurants/coffee places. Are McD's or Starbucks really that rare everywhere else in the world?

Smokers are the most annoying, especially if they're ahead of you. I'm sure diesel exhaust is probably worse than cigarette smoke, but it doesn't make it any less annoying when there's a pool of smoke in front of you and you have to hold your breath while you rush past one smoker, only to find you're now behind yet another one. Even more annoying are smokers who go to Central Park and smoke, yeah, how nice that you've come out to see and enjoy nature and pollute it. Thanks buddy...

I find that walking on the edge of the sidewalk is the best way to do that. There's usually obstacles, such as newstands, hydrants, flowerpots/metal posts, people handing out flyers - some holding very large wide signs so as to use up even more space, etc., so I almost always switch to the street gutter and quickly get around them, but now there's pedicabs to avoid as well.

After 9/11 they put big flowerpots in front of a lot of buildings, or just metal posts, I guess they're worried about someone driving a truck into a building or something, but it makes the sidewalks much narrower, so more congested. There's also a lot of construction these days with closed sidewalks/scaffolding.

So NYC's a big obstacle course if you're walking. It's probably worse if you're driving or biking.