Work out the day's schedule and finish time for a ruck march
Halts are what people leave out of a march plan. Twelve miles at 2.5 mph is just under five hours of walking, but a ten-minute halt after every fifty minutes adds most of another hour. Enter distance, target pace, minutes of walking per leg and halt length, and this page returns the walking time, the number of legs and halts, the total elapsed time and the average speed once halts are counted. Add a start time and it gives the finish time, flagging the extra day if the march runs past midnight.
The number of halts is one fewer than the number of legs, because finishing the last leg means arriving. Calories use the Pandolf, Givoni and Goldman load-carriage equation and are counted only while walking, not during halts. No doctrinal halt cycle or march speed is pre-filled; every one of those values is an input box (as of October 2026).
The calorie figure is fixed to level paved road, with terrain factor 1.0 and zero grade, and grade and terrain corrections are not supported. The Pandolf equation itself has been reported to run 12 to 33 percent below measured values under heavy loads and faster speeds, so read it as a floor. Heat, dehydration and foot problems are not modelled at all. Plan water separately, and check your feet at the next halt the moment anything starts to rub.
Frequently asked questions
Widely quoted doctrinal march and halt figures could not be traced to a published source, so nothing is pre-filled. The cycle your unit actually uses is the accurate one to enter.
Finishing the last leg means you have arrived, so no halt is counted after it. Six legs produce five halts.
The calorie figure is fixed to level paved road and does not support grade or terrain corrections. The schedule and finish time use the target pace you entered, so they are unaffected.