Jogging Advice
I went for a jog on Saturday, Sept 10. With my jogging stroller. My totally wonderful, awesome orange BOB Revolution jogging stroller. I love that stroller. My circuit was longer than I had thought. I wound up going 2.25 miles. I did walk most of that for what I consider a good reason…
I was jogging back home after having gotten the half-way reminder on my C25K app, when I noticed that my stroller was getting harder and harder to push. At first I thought it was just me, “I must be way more exhausted than I thought”, “this hill is actually steeper than it looks”, “I am way wimpier than I thought I was!” Then I noticed that I had to work really hard to keep my stroller in a straight line. I had the front wheel locked… What the Hades was going on? Just as this thought was going through my head, I started to hear a new noise over my music. A muffled squeaking. With irregular thumps. I look down at my wheels and all of them have goatheads:
Picture from Bike Noob
Which ultimately means they were all flat. All three of my stroller’s tires were as flat as pancakes. I still had one major hill to go up… I was bright red, dizzy, and super sweaty by the time I made it home. Tomorrow, I will be running without the little guy and I will be fixing my tires with slime. That was my running adventure this weekend. Lesson learned: To make a run extra hard, do not slime your jogging stroller tires…
