Best Baby Jogger (Pram for running with)?

ir666

Baby due in the new year, so I am looking for recommendations?

Thanks
ir666 :cool:

robinph

I was going to suggest trying babyjogger.com as a stupid answer, seems that it isn't such a stupid answer though and it's actually a real site and product:

http://www.babyjogger.com/default.aspx

Looks like big wheels are the key though.

Blueskye

Irishfit do them: http://www.irishfit.eu/babyjoggermain.html

robinph

I'd think that actually running with anything other than the first one on that page with the fixed front wheel may be a bit tricky.

MrCreosote

Fixed front wheel is definitely the best. Locking the swivel wheels still leaves a bit of a wobble. We use an old mountain buggy- out of production though but it's pretty standard with a fixed front wheel and 12 inch wheels. On the flat running is almost as easy with it as without it.

Only thing is the baby gets used to the running, and gets impatient if you just go for a walk...

tunney

Anyone know of somewhere that sells these at a reasonable price?

scottreynolds

I use a Mamas and Papas 03 Sport. Its okay but not ideal. Unfortunately the price of the jogging buggy's seems stupid.

hunnymonster

lol, a friend recently bought one and being a bike ponce all he could equate the cost to was bike parts. It was a full carbon frame's worth.

tunney

hunnymonster wrote: »

lol, a friend recently bought one and being a bike ponce all he could equate the cost to was bike parts. It was a full carbon frame's worth.

The baby jogger performance is only 350. May be forced to invest, although could get the one that turns into a bike trailer. Although not sure if 5-6 hour rides around wicklow with the kid in a trailer is recommend. Would build strength though.

Racing Flat

When investigating this a while back, we concluded that none of them are really ideal for running. There is just not enough support, particularly when the baby is very young and the brain will get shaken about a lot. They might be advertised as safe for jogging etc. but I don't think that's the case. This is IMHO but also when in a shop looking at one an assistant whispered out of earshot of the boss that she wouldn't recommend any of them for jogging, even the jogging ones, but of course she might have been incorrect.


As a matter of interest, anybody who has used them, how does it affect your running - if you normally run at 8.00min mile pace, does this drop to 8.30 pace with the jogging buggy? Any arm or back ache?

MrCreosote

I started running with ours when the baby was four months and had no problems at all. As long as you've got fixed front wheel and pneumatic tyres they're really smooth- the surface you're running on gives the bumpiness.

You get used to running with them- one hand on and switch it every few hundred metres. Hills are a pain alright. The only pain was calf/achilles pain after running hills so I stopped that. On the flat it might add 5-10% to times. For the record my fastest 5k time is with a buggy and the longest run I did with it was 24k, usually kept to it 10-12k though.

Racing Flat

ir666 wrote: »

Baby due in the new year,

Forgot to say - Congratulations!

911sc

Congratulations.
What's about a babysitter instead, so you can get out running & chill out by yourself for a while?

tunney

911sc wrote: »

Congratulations.
What's about a babysitter instead, so you can get out running & chill out by yourself for a while?

I've been told that new mums can relish the disappeance of father and child for a few hours.

RJC

This is what I use:

http://www.burley.com/products/child/dlite.cfm


I have a front wheel adapter with it. It will take 2 kids up to the age of about 5 - 7 years but it will take a newbie as well. It has the advantages of:

folding flat
being used as a bicycle trailer (handy to cycle somewhere and then lock the bike and head off)
loads of luggage space
very light - light enough to push with one hand so the other one can work normally while running.

the disadvantages are:
as wide as a twin buggy so hard to manoeuvre compared to a single seater phil & teds job.

I have used it on a local 10k run with 2 kids and if you push hard-ish on the run you get a real strength workout (like doing hills but on the flat). You can use the strap/tether to let it roll on in front of you.

robinph

^ and you can fit that one with a ski adapter kit as well, gets my vote in that case.

Gringo78

ir666 wrote: »

Baby due in the new year, so I am looking for recommendations?

I would recommend using what either of the guys mentioned in the story below use.....2:32 pushing an 11-month old in a buggy...something to aspire to and train for in the new year.

http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=11553598

mloc123

tunney wrote: »

Would build strength though.

Mental strength for the baby I presume?