we ditched the stroller when they turned about 2 years 3 months. we still have the double stroller and the umbrella strollers of course (in my head i keep them "just in case") but really they're just collecting dust at this point.

it was very important to us that they get comfortable with walking. we started out by taking them on walks around the neighborhood (1.5 mile round trip with toddlers meant it took like 1 hour), and we also took them to ucla campus and walked around with them on a saturday one day. when it seemed like it had been a long time for them, i asked if they wanted to be carried and one twin said yes and the other said no thanks.

my inspiration was a friend's 5 year old that refused to walk when we strolled through the park when my twins were 10 months old. my friend had to carry her kid the whole time and was miserable.

also, i make sure to buy them really good walking shoes (like their cute little stride rite pink mary jane sneakers with sequins). so that their little feet won't hurt or get blisters.

my 15 month old wont let me strap him in a stroller

today!
squat
barx10
110x10
135x8
145x6
155x5
155x5
155x5

DB BP
20x10
20x10
25x10
30x7
30x6 (left failed)
30x7

DB Row
20x15
20x15
25x10
30x8
34x5
34x5
34x5

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I had a drunken 2hour walk home from a festival tonight. The first bit was up through a field, then down through the centre of town, then up a hill to my house. hellish walk it was.

Tomorrow I've got a sponsored walk at my work, I think it's aprox 6miles which is pretty much what I walked tonight, but at least I'll be sober! Although thinking about it, I may be hungover

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I've been hiding from this thread for days. lol.

I didn't have any plan really but only two weeks to go now so I figure I need to get the finger out. I think I'm gonna try to do a 10K every other day over the next week, just for confidence purposes more than anything, and then the final week I'll maybe just do 5K or less every other day.

Trying to prepare for a 10K and move country at the same time hasn't been my finest bit of life planning, really.

Yeah this is defo right and I'm glad I stopped that day, later that evening my hip joint was approaching agony so I dread to think how it would have been after 10K instead of just 5.

I hadn't really thought of the sleep/rest/nutrition thing but everything has been different this week, I'm no longer working so I'm sleeping longer, and I'm only eating two meals per day instead of three. And the fact that I've been on the booze pretty much every night prolly isn't helping either, I notice I get bad quality sleep when on alcohol.


I finally talked myself into going out and doing a 10K today, I deliberately took it easy so as not to put myself off since I know I'm having a bit of a psychological battle over this **** right now. Or at least I felt like I was taking it easy but I pretty much had the same sort of time as I usually do, 59:23.

My husband went out and did his first ever 10K training run today, only two weeks before the race, and timed at like 56 minutes or something. I wish I could be that good without trying.

i'm so jealous of people who have the stamina/ability to be good runners with minimum training. my husband did a 10K back in march - he'd NEVER run before and only started training for it a few weeks before, and totally smashed it. jealous.

saturday i did week 5 run 2 of c25k. 8 min run, 5 min walk, 8 min run. moving onto the next run tonight.

the music in this stage of the plan is starting to **** me off. some of the running music is slower than the walking music! i need something loud with a good beat to give me energy, not this "find your inner zen" ****.