How long is your school run - round trip?

[McDreamy]

Just wondering as mine is an hour (sometimes just over) and I am wondering if I am slightly mad!

3 miles or so each way; 10 minutes drive each way in car.

5 minute walk there with kids, 3 minute walk back alone!

15 min walk each way.

I feel so sorry for all of you with epic journeys. As kids, we lived right next door to both our schools. Made running away at lunch time - which we did frequently - all the harder, though...

walking is about 1 hour round trip.

5 min walk with DC, 3 minutes without.

2.5 miles away (next village) country road with no pavements so have to drive - 15 mins to get there - 5 mins to get back as all traffic seems to clear at 9.00am.

The safe walking route is 4.5 miles so when I don't need to go anywhere else its not raining I leave the car at school and walk home then walk back to pick up at the end of the day.

It used to take me an hour each way when I was at secondary as it was 11 miles away.

After living in London for a few years, I vowed I'd never live more than half an hour from my work again and I'm kept this up with the boys' school. We moved to get in catchment for a good secondary- at first I had to drive the boys 40 mins round trip, driving, to their old primary school before spaces became available in the local primary school. It's now a 20 minute round trip, walking.

The secondary is 3 miles away but bus convolutions mean it will take DS1 at least 30 mins to get there! Oops!

10 minutes there, 5 back. 45 mins walking round trip on a playgroup morning.

3 miles. 5 mins in car. Not practical on foot - country roads without footpaths.

50 minutes tp 1 hour depending on which dcs I have withh me round trip on foot.

7 miles there 10-15 mins by car ( no bus at that time in morning/too far to walk)
dd gets a special bus in afternoon and then walks a mile home from the bus stop.

about 20/25 mins there and 15/20 back
can be about half an hour though depending on the roads

About 2.5 miles each way. Takes about 20mins in car because of traffic.

5 mins on foot each way to school gate and about another 2 mins to ds's classroom as he slows to snail pace to delay the inevitable

15 minutes walk either way.

Roughly 20 minutes there and 10-15 back. In the car as too far to walk and some roads have no pavements.

School is 0.4 miles away. Takes about 10 min there - takes me a little less on the way back. I am doing the trip three times a day as DD is at nursery there which finishes at 11:30.

3 minutes on foot alone when late.

10-20 mins on foot with dd (we often go a nicer but longer way round with the dog)

We don't run (unless we are late!) - 5mins there and 5mins back, plus chatting time in the playground!

Mine is between 10 and 15 mins walk - its less than a mile. I make the DC walk it as much as possible, although not when its raining. Then I walk home and get into the car to come to work.
On car days it takes about 5 mins, as the traffic through the village is slow and then I just go onto work.

Some days I think it is definitly quicker for me to walk, than take the car.

We have started taking the car on wednesdays now too, because my DS has Guitar leson, swimming lesson - both during school and then hockey after school. So on top of his normal school bag it is way too much stuff to carry and they dont do lockers at primary school.

About 1hr 15 mins in the car. Takes about 45 mins to get there.

10 mins to get out and walk them in.

Only takes about 20 minutes to get back because after 9.00 the roads are clearer.

15 minutes walk there in the morning (yelling at DS to hurry up the whole way!); 13 mins home for me. 13 mins back up for them in the afternoon, but usually takes about half an hour to get them home!
It's just under a mile - means I walk over 3 miles - don't have any trouble with my 10,000 steps a day!

About 6 minute round trip.

McDreamy, we used to go to a local school, 15 minute walk, but we just weren't happy with the school. I went to see the school we are in now as I had heard great things sbout it, and I knew the minute I walked in the door that this was the right school for us.

We live close to the city centre and the school is in the suburbs, there are 3 or 4 different routes I can take and I vary them depending on the time of day and weather. In the morning I leave home at 8.20, back between 9.40 and 10, afternoon I leave at 1.55 back about 3.15.

In the beginning I had ds1 in new school, ds2 in a private monteaaori while waiting for a place in the new school, and dd in a preschool. My entire life was consumed by the school run, so now all 3 are in the same place it seems like a doddle.

Of course the ideal is to walk to the local school, but life doesn't always work out that way, does it?

My dc are happy to go to school every morning and that's what matters most.