To never go for a walk again for the rest of my born days?

[Sheeeeeep]

Never ever ever.

Weekends and holidays will be spent doing anything that does not involve Going For A Walk.

AIBU?

@pictish

OP - my apologies. It wasn’t personal to you, just what this thread made me think of. Throughout lockdown I have wished for everything to reopen so everyone would bugger off back to whatever it is they normally do for fun.

I don’t think YOU drop litter but I know that lots of people do.

I’m sorry that I was rude.

Thanks - I was probably a bit touchy but I hate litter and I can honestly say I’ve never ever done it. It wouldn’t occur to me to drop litter tbh!

I’m definitely ready for some variety but o bloody love walking. I feel quite lucky that one my favourite things is still available during lockdown. They’re definitely more irritating with children though (although isn’t everything?!).

Me too. If I never went for another walk again it would be too soon.

I only ever used to like a long walk, ending in a pub for a big lunch.

Of course YABU, that’s what walks are for. Send the kids and their dad to bond during a holiday walk while you take a rest, read a book, have some time to yourself. Just tell them you are sorting dinner for when they are back (and do)

@maddiemookins16mum

I think I must be in the minority that I haven’t been for one ‘walk’ throughout the last 13 months.

What have you been doing instead? I assume you have other hobbies that have been doable during COVID.

I probably wouldn’t have bothered with walks but had a baby in November and it helps get her to sleep.

This has not endeared me to walking!

I will happily never go to soft play again in my life. Luckily dd hates it too.

Never did I ever think I would miss soft play.... but soft play with the worst cup of tea I've ever tasted is far more appealing than another walk with my DC at this moment in time!!!

I love walking and am lucky to have lovely coastal and forest walks on my doorstep so I voted YABU.

Having said that, I’ll be far happier when all of those who have only been out walking because there hasn’t been much else do to, go back to what they prefer to be doing so my walks return to being more peaceful!

I love periods of solitude and have really missed that.

Part of the reason I dont enjoy soft play is because even age 5 my dd will not go off and play without me, she wants me to come with her

@lectrofan

Part of the reason I dont enjoy soft play is because even age 5 my dd will not go off and play without me, she wants me to come with her

I hear ya.

Blast, I hoped I would be able to get rid of DD in a few years!

I gave up on going for a walk some months ago, first time out for months today except for work and supermarket and that was only because we could have lunch on the beach.

I got fed up of no one socially distancing, too long queues for the only open takeaway and the same old walk because we had to go from home.

Today we ventured 10 miles away in the car to a different beach and it was pure bliss.

I can’t wait until we can properly do lunch, seated in a restaurant in the middle of a walk. That makes walking worthwhile for me.

Oh god I'd love to go for a walk... without my children.

@Sheeeeeep will you take my kids to soft play and I can go for a walk? I'll buy you all the cake and fishfingers you can eat?

I went for a long walk with a friend. We did vow to go on another walk to the pub and get her dh to pick us up when we were very drunk 🤣

I love to walk. I almost live to walk. Dog looks at me at 10.00 and we are off. 10k steps. The rest of life is pretty dull.

@Glitterblue

My mother is obsessed with going for a walk EVERY day. She complains if they have one day when they don't go for one and she asks me every single day if we've been for one and gives me a lecture if we haven't. It's at the point now where I always, always say yes even if we haven't just to avoid the lecture about fresh air and exercise 😂

If I wasn't an only child I would ask you if we had the same mother mine is exactly the same!

What I'd give to be able bodied and have walked so much that I'm utterly bored of it.
Not a personal dig, we've all got challenges of course, but the pool is about all the exercise I can manage and I've not been able to get to one for over a year (I can't leave my bed on a bad day). How the other half live I guess.

My dog will be grumpy if he doesn’t get his 2 walks per day so I don’t think I’ll get out of going for a walk just yet!!

This is how I feel about play parks.

My girls are 6 and 4. They do not enjoy walking. They do however enjoy a play park. It is literally all we’ve done for fun for the best part of a year and I am getting to the stage where I’d be happy never to see another play park again.

I don’t miss the soft play at all though. I doubt we’ll bother going back.

There are some really fucking deliberately obtuse people on this thread 🤦🏽‍♀️

I'm disabled with mobility problems so walking is a very painful and unpleasant experience for me. If I have one more person telling me it'd do me good to get out of the house and have a walk, I will cry. It comes across as very insensitive (from people who know me IRL obviously). If I could go around the countryside on a hoverboard for some fresh air, I'd really enjoy it.

I'm just looking forward till till things are more normal again and I can enjoy a long walk (away from my home town) followed by a nice pub.

I'm sick to death of walking the same route and back.

We haven't been on a single family walk in a year. DS11 doesn't do walking or exercise.

I will however be pleased to have all my dog walks back to myself.

We started having a daily walk right at the start of the first lockdown. It's been over a year now and we've decided it's admitting defeat to stop. So that's it now for the rest of our lives we've got to aim for 20,000 a day or we're failures