is it normal for a heavily pregnant woman to be able to walk 12 miles?

[mum0ftw0]

or is that an unreasonable expectation?

Average walking speed is about 3mph. I seem to be quite average in that 3 miles takes me an hour (maybe a little under - say 50 mins). But that's a rough rule of thumb.

So 12 miles in 2 hours is not walking. 12 miles in 3 hours is going at above average speed and you would need to be (I think) either on the flat and going for it, or some kind of speed walker - sort of jog/walking rather than just going for a walk IYSWIM.

As for heavily pg - in life or death many heavily pg women could manage it, but probably wouldn't enjoy it very much. My hips go all wibbly around 40 weeks (ligaments loosed up I think) and everything feels wobbly and wrong. So in that state I would definitely not be keen to do a long walk of any sort.

altinkum has said that she mistyped when she wrote 2 hours

my mum went on walks of that length at about 38 weeks, but she's a bit of a nutter anyway

Some comments are so absurd that they kind of deserve there own thread....

And what BOF said.

their god damn it!

very unreasonable

a few days before i had ds i went out shopping with my friend, i was about 10 days overdue we were out all day, came home then went out for dinner and walked up crystal palace hill how i am not sure i just had all this energy, i would struggle walking up there now. i think i was meant to be nesting with that energy surge

blimey what a stupid thread. Is this what we've sunk to
"She said , but then he said but i said and then she said"
You sound about 12

I did 8 miles when 8 months pregnant pushing DS in a buggy. But I accept not everyone could do this.

It's quite funny that atkinmum is so miffed about being (mis)quoted elsewhere. A thread about a thread is rude, granted, but I tend to agree with QOD.

Don't think that your daftest posts can't be reposted wherever the hell anyone wants them to be though, once on the web they are anybody's. Giod, I found one of my MN quotes had been posted in The Daily Fricking Mirror - as if I would have agreed to that!

3 miles per hour is general walking pace 4 miles an hour is fast walking anything faster is power walking like the olympics you can not walk a mile in 10 minutes you would have to jog at least part,

the average person would take 3.5 -4 hours hours to walk 12 miles even for serious walkers doing the long penine way etc would consider 15-20 miles a full day's walk because in reality unless live in norfolk broads or similar 12 miles will not be continuous flat on even terrain

certainly some women in africa etc will be walking long distances to collect water they walk slowish because of heat and generally in group talking as they go

Speaking as a heavily pregnant woman at the moment, no, I could not walk 12 miles. But then again, I'm not the type to walk 12 miles pre-pregnancy either .

Actually though, I think that the pushing a buggy/pram would make it easier - something to keep you upright.

Mind you, as another poster has said, to walk 12 miles from home in any direction would leave me literally in the middle of nowhere. I'd walk through my village, to the nearest town, through there, out the other side & somewhere into the distance .

I do think people are too reliant on cars now. So many young kids cant even walk a mile!

Like another poster, I am known for 'walking fast' and walk at about 4 miles an hour, possibly very slightly less. It used to take me 35 minutes to walk to work which was 2.4 miles away.

You'd be lucky to walk 12 miles while pregnant, I suspect.

I cant walk 12 miles without being pregnant let alone with being pregnant, max I reckon I could do at a push without being fucked off is two miles.

anyone who can walk 12 miles however long it takes and is ok when finished apart from tired and that is sorted by 1 nights sleep is perfectly fit enough my concern is those you are not in last month of pregnancyt and not ill technically but still would struggle to walk 3 miles in any time

Can't this be discussed on the thread it came up on?

Why does it need it's own thread?

If every disagreement on every thread spawned another one MN wou,d implode in about five minutes.

apologies, I was conscious of hijaking the other thread from its main subject.

SOME heavily pregnant women could walk 12miles (probably not as quickly as in un-pregnant state....). I was walking this distance right up to term (in fact on a loooong walk when went into labour...... walked the 4 miles home with contractions every 4-5mins which may have helped things along...).

Clearly SPD, anaemia etc may make this much less do-able. Clearly there is a huge spectrum of how people feel when pregnant.

Outrageous. These kind of statements on mumsnet are utter nonsense.

I find pregnancy is yet another area of life, in which the insidious competitiveness of our culture has infiltrated

Well I could run ten miles every day, worked until I went into labour and was still in my size ten jeans

I was young and impressionable with my first pregnancy and I tried to walk up the steep hill to my house daily with SPD. I ended up in severe pain and had to finish work early. And I was fit pre pregnancy.

There is a huge spectrum but as long as you eat healthily, stay as active as you can (and that may mean a gentle swim, or even just getting out of the house each day) then you are fine.

No bloody way. When I was pg with dd, when I was around 7/8 months I would go all dizzy and faint when walking too far. Each to their own

I can walk for miles and miles -cant drive so have to.

Whilst pg couldnt walk for more than 5mins without fainting/being sick or my hip locking or coming out of its socket.

Sil could still run right up to her due date and I am 'arder than her!

I ran the London Marathon 3 months before I got pregnant with DC3. Seven months later, at 4 months pregnant, my SPD meant I was in agony walking half a mile and could only comfortably manage distances of around a few hundred yards.

Ironically though, having a pushchair to lean on helped!

I realise there's been some misquoting going on, but for the record: 6mph (12 miles in 2 hours) is also a 10 minute mile pace. The sort of jogging pace which would allow you to do a 5K in 30 minutes. Even the C25K programme doesn't promise that afaik, let alone any pregnant woman! It took me six weeks of intensive training to get to that speed when I first started running and I had been briskly walking 10-15 miles at a time before I started running! It is not a gentle pace for anyone other than experienced runners.

How many snacks, wees, and sit-downs are we allowed along the way? Give me a day and I could (possibly) make it ;)