Florida mom runs world-record mile while pushing a stroller

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NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Kaitlin Donner, who set a new world record time for running a mile with a child in a stroller.



SCOTT DETROW, HOST:

I like to run. I’ve also got young kids. And the combination of the two can be tricky for a lot of parents. It can be hard to find the time or the energy or the elusive magical combination of both to go get that run in when there’s always so much to do. And that is where the running stroller comes in. Now, some parent runners hate them, some love them, but no parent in world history has done what Kaitlin Donner recently pulled off. The 34-year-old mother of two and her 20-month-old son, Mikey, just set the world record for running the mile while pushing a stroller – a blistering five minutes and 11 seconds. That topped the previous record by 13 seconds. And the Guinness Book of World Records was there to make it official. Caitlin Donner joins us now to talk about this. Kaitlin, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

KAITLIN DONNER: Yeah. Thank you so much for having me. I’m excited.

DETROW: You’re a world record holder. How’s that feel?

DONNER: (Laughter) It’s really fun. You know, when I had my son, the one that was in the stroller, and then even my older son five years ago, didn’t expect that this was ever going to be on the radar. But it’s turned out to be a really fun experience.

DETROW: How did this first come about? Were you doing any other races with stroller running? Were you just running with a stroller and thinking, what if? Like, where did this come from?

DONNER: Yeah. It was not on my radar at all. And one of my best friends, who’s the director of operations of Space Coast Runners, which is a local nonprofit running club here in Melbourne, Fla., she pitched to me shortly after Mikey was born in 2022. Hey. There’s this, you know, Guinness Book of World record stroller mile. Maybe you should think about it. We’ve been going back-and-forth with it, and I’ve been kind of…

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