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StrollerStrides



Usually, while Noah is having a great time at preschool, Max and I go running.

When Noah was little, I took him on runs in the stroller all the time. Before moving to Flagstaff, Max had hardly ever had that pleasure for different reasons:

a) who wants to push a double jogger with 2 kids in it while running? Right now my kids weigh 29 and 41 lbs. The chariot itself is at least 30 lbs. 100 extra lbs? No thanks. Unless that is my only option...

b) I hate sitting around doing nothing. I assume my kids do, too. So I try to spare them.

c) I was (usually) always free to run by myself in Provo. Good friends, grandparents, neighbors, cousins. Most of the time, I had someone to play with my kids.

Well, things change.

Now I am "stuck" here in Flagstaff. All by my little self.

So with Noah in preschool 3 mornings a week, it was time to get out the single Chariot. I've always loved our Cougar CX. I can't seem to find any pictures of ours, unfortunately.


It is pretty much a racing machine, I tell ya! Ok. Not quite. But almost. You can have attachments for strolling, hiking, running, biking and even skiing! Believe me, we have all of them and love them! Can you believe that Karl wanted to sell this beauty and have me be stuck with the double? No way, I said. And I am glad I did.

Well, I digress. This is not supposed to be an advertisement for Chariot. Although it might as well be.

This week I decided to try out StrollerStrides which is a fitness/running group here in town for moms and their kids (in strollers). I found what was to be expected: a bunch of (super nice) moms, their kids, and strollers.

I also found the McMillan Elite Running Team. It so happens that this post-collegiate team happens to train (for the Olympics) in the same place at the same time as StrollerStrides. No question about what group I wanted to belong to! But since I don't have a runner's figure or speed and because they did not welcome strollers, I decided to side with the other moms.

So while the real runners were doing some kind of hard core interval training, we were either jogging in place or doing some sort of core exercises while singing "Twinkle, twinkle little star" to our kids. I have to admit, I was a little embarrassed.

But since StrollerStrides is sponsored by LUNA (which is owned by CliffBar), there were two big boxes full of energy bars for us to load up on. Also, they had little leg warmers in fun Halloween print and I ended up walking away with 5 pair! That part was awesome!

Actually, I would definitely go again but, unfortunately, it is not free. So I will just continue to run from playground to playground with my little running buddy. Not quite at the speed of a Strider but definitely not at the speed of a Runner either.


Comments

JessWilson said…
Haha, this post made me think about that first time we went running together with our oldest boys in strollers. Good times! Hope you find some good training partners there that have little kids too to trade off with! :)
September 19, 2010
Jaime said…
I love to read about moms trying Stroller Strides for the first time!

Sounds like you had a great time and that you would do it again... perhaps a class pass rather than monthly membership would be in order :) You could then limit yourself to go to Stroller Strides once a week or something, so you still get the benefits you outlined while keeping tabs on your pocket book.

In Stride - Jaime (a Stroller Strides franchisee from Washington State)
September 20, 2010
Telitaadams said…
Hee, hee. There's a Stroller Strides opening up here ... A little exercise with other moms and their babies sounds nice. I'm poking around your website trying find the exercise video you and Jenn were working out to in Las Vegas, but I'm going to give up and just write you about that :-)
March 14, 2011
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