'We went for a long walk' ... how far is this with your family?

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Obviously ages of DC can determine how far is far. But if your DC are 8+ how far is your long walk?

2 hours ish. Any longer and they complain.

Our standard walk around our local country park is 5k so a ‘long walk’ would be 7-10k I guess.

Yes, couple of hours. 5/6 miles without rushing.

We had a long walk today with Dd10 and Ds 6. We walked about 8km over fairly flat ground - fields and footpaths. I was knackered, but kids looked like they could have gone around again

@Gerla

2 hours ish. Any longer and they complain.

Probably about this too. The kids would moan, the dogs are only wee so get tired and it would just stop being fun if we did it for any longer. Personally I would love to go for longer ones but it just wouldn't work for us right now.

We did 5 miles with a then 2 Yr old who walked with no pushchair. Didn't intend it to be thay far but took wrong track.
She was fine until the last half a mile.

At 8 Yrs old. I'd imagine 6 to 8 miles?

2-3 hours, I’d say about 6miles.

6 miles ish

We're dictated by the stamina of my youngest and proximity of a toilet!
So to be honest it's about 3 miles.
We've built up from about half a mile a year ago though.

7/8 miles is a long walk. Around half that for a standard walk I guess. 2 adults and 2 DC.

9 and 4 year old. About 60-90 mins for the 4 year old. Up to 3 hours for the oldest.

This is probably going to get competitive so:

26 miles. Twice. The kids whistle a happy tune and I never have to bribe them with food to keep going. Probably.

We go out for 2 to 3 hours with my 4 and 8 year old. But it’s very hilly, so it’s not actually very far.

I’d count anything over 6 miles as long, for us. I can do longer and so can dd1, but unless there’s a playground or an ice-cream as an incentive my 9yo loses interest and energy at about the 5/6 mile mark.

2.5 hours would be longer than the normal hour long dog walk

With toddler aged 2 1.5 hours

Alone or with a friend would class if as 4-5 hours

Half an hour or so at a leisurely pace.

about 10k, 3 hour(ish)
youngest (pre-teen) will moan a lot. will moan at anything longer than 10 minutes...

A normal length walk would probably be an hour or so, so 4km or so? Friday we walked 8km, today we walked 6km, yesterday 4km. Ds is nearly 9 and he and DH can do 8-10 mile hikes pretty easily. I’m a bit less fit, but can do 10km as long as I’m wearing the right shoes for the terrain and it’s not too hilly.

As I have chronic health issues, anything over around 20 mins is a long walk, and an achievement, for me.

2 year old walking all he way can do up to 3 miles... But it takes forever. Normal nice wlak is 1.5 miles with him an drakes forever.
Older dsc moan like a drain if we walk them anywhere. They don't do that with thir mum so are not used to it.

We usually walk 5-7 miles, both children 8+

An hour to hour and half with the 4 and 5 yr olds. The distance covered would vary wildly

How quickly the DC complain depends more on the company (they'll walk three times as far with their cousins and their dog), the weather (half a mile in horizontal rain meant I should be reported to social services for cruelty), the entertainment options (trees to climb and pebbly beaches for skimming stones are the best). But assuming all of that was good they'd probably be OK up to 5-6 miles which is a good walk. I'd assume over 10 miles before I called a walk 'long' but DH and I haven't done one of those since before we had DC. And a long walk is good because it would incorporate a pub lunch (and was therefore broken down to two walks).

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This is probably going to get competitive so:

26 miles. Twice. The kids whistle a happy tune and I never have to bribe them with food to keep going. Probably.

Yea I’m surprised to see fairly normal answers so far

Yours is kind of lame though. My 8 month old can walk about 70 miles, over 6 hours or so. The 4 year old does iron man competitions so sprints it and laps us. We don’t have snacks either, just water and I let the kids sniff a crust of bread to keep them going. Oh, and afterwards they all paint and write about the things they’ve seen and win awards for those too. Lastly, we are all ravishingly beautiful too, of course.