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I Hope He Gets It: A Mallorca Dad Just Beat My Stroller Record Time

Did someone beat the quintuple stroller 10K record?

Unofficially, yes. On Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, Juan Lladó ran a 10K in Palma, on the Spanish island of Mallorca, pushing five kids in a five-seat stroller. Local news outlets reported his time as 1:00:55. That’s almost four minutes under the 1 hr 4 min 52.9 sec I set in 2019 for the Guinness World Records title fastest 10 km pushing a quintuple pram (male). Guinness World Records still has to review it, and I hope he gets the record.

A story out of Spain popped up on my phone this week. A dad named Juan Lladó had run a 10K pushing five kids in a stroller, and he finished almost four minutes faster than the time I set in 2019 pushing my quintuplets. My first thought was that this is awesome.

I haven’t seen the story in the U.S. yet, and it’s too good not to share.

What did Juan Lladó do in Palma, Mallorca?

Palma is the capital of Mallorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean. On Sunday it hosted the International Running Course de Palma Beach, which includes a 10K along the Playa de Palma waterfront. Lladó ran it pushing a five-seat stroller that carried his three kids and two daughters of friends. The five passengers ranged in age from 3 to 11.

Ultima Hora, Diario de Marratxí and other local outlets put the stroller and kids at about 200 kilograms, which is roughly 440 pounds. For scale, the quintuplet stroller I pushed in 2019 weighed about 200 pounds with five one-year-olds in it. His was more than twice that, and he still finished in 1:00:55. (Ultima Hora had it one second faster.)

Chad Kempel, his wife Amy and their seven children beside the five-seat quintuplet stroller at the 10K quintuple stroller record in Garden City, Idaho, on July 20, 2019, with one daughter holding an Anything Is Possible sign
My family at the 10K record in Garden City, Idaho, on July 20, 2019. With five one-year-olds in it, the stroller weighed about 200 pounds.

Part of the course crossed the beach, and he told reporters afterward that the stroller dug into the sand there and cost him at least a minute. Pushing a loaded five-seater on pavement is hard enough. He did part of it in sand. I’ve pushed a loaded stroller on a loose cinder track that felt like running in sand, and I didn’t make it a lap and a half. He also said he was “delighted, though still recovering,” and I believe both halves of that.

He had company. His coach, José Solomando, the sports doctor Antonio Cañellas, the former water polo player Blanca Gil and the boxer José del Río ran beside him to cheer him on, and none of them could help push. Under the Guinness World Records guidelines this is an individual record, so the runner has to do all of the pushing himself.

They ran as Team Juan Lladó, in matching black shirts. Lladó runs Contract Stone & Ceramic, a Mallorca company that sells high-end kitchens, including Lube Cucine. Both companies sponsored his run, and Contract Stone posted about it the next day.

View Contract Stone’s post about the run on Instagram
Contract Stone’s post about the run. Juan Lladó is on Instagram at @juanlladomallorca.

He’s been building up to this for years. According to Ultima Hora, he worked his way up through races with one kid in the stroller, then two, then three. Last year he ran this same race with his three kids, got a flat tire in the first 900 meters and finished on it anyway, in 55 minutes. This year he added two more passengers.

Lladó dedicated the run to his mother, who died this year. I’m sorry for his loss, and I know it meant a lot to him to cross that finish line with his kids.

He has also said what he wants beyond a record. He wants to create a family atmosphere and get parents doing things with their kids. I’m with him.

Juan Lladó’s 10K with five kids in a stroller, by the numbers
RunnerJuan Lladó, of Mallorca, Spain
Race10K at the International Running Course de Palma Beach, in Palma
DateSunday, Nov. 8, 2026
Reported time1:00:55
Average paceAbout 9:48 per mile (6:05 per km)
In the strollerFive kids, ages 3 to 11
Stroller and kidsAbout 200 kg (roughly 440 lb)
Time on the Guinness World Records listing1 hr 4 min 52.9 sec, set July 20, 2019
StatusNot yet reviewed by Guinness World Records
Table 1. As reported by Ultima Hora and Diario de Marratxí. The pace is my math.

Is it an official Guinness World Records title yet?

Not yet, and that’s normal. Guinness World Records reviews the evidence from an attempt before a record changes, and its posted wait for evidence review is currently up to 20 weeks. Until it rules, the listing for the fastest 10 km pushing a quintuple pram (male) shows the time I set with my quintuplets in Garden City, Idaho, on July 20, 2019, which is 1 hr 4 min 52.9 sec. (“Pram” is the British word for a stroller, and it’s the one Guinness World Records uses. You’ll also see it called a pushchair or a buggy.)

Lladó told Ultima Hora the evidence will include the timing company’s certificates, press clippings and witness statements. When Guinness World Records rules, I’ll update this page.

If the quintuple stroller records are new to you, Runner’s World wrote about my first attempt at the marathon, and the Mercury News was writing about the quints back when they first came home.

Why do I hope Juan Lladó gets the record?

It’s more exciting to hold a record that somebody is chasing than one that sits on a shelf with me for the rest of my life.

And what he did is amazing. I hope a lot of other parents see it and decide to try something like it, because it’s a great experience and it gives you a memory you share with your kids. Mine love to talk about it now that they’re a little older.

I only tried it because of someone else’s records. Years ago I came across an article about two moms, Ann Marie Cody and Teresa Marie Pitts, who had set Guinness World Records pushing their kids in triple strollers, and that’s where the idea came from. On the Sunday I set the marathon record in Modesto, on my third try, Ann Marie set a 10K record of her own with her triplets, and KTVU put the two of us in the same story. Now a dad in Mallorca has taken it further, and some parent reading about him is probably next.

What does psychology say about a run like this?

In 1977 the Stanford psychologist Albert Bandura, best known to intro psych students for the Bobo doll experiments, published his theory of self-efficacy, which is your belief that you can pull off one specific thing. He named four sources that belief comes from. As I read the coverage, Lladó’s run had all four.

Performance accomplishments Strongest Doing it yourself You believe you can because you already did a smaller version. In Palma: races with one kid in the stroller, then two, then three, before he tried five.
Vicarious experience Watching someone else You believe you can because someone like you did it. In Palma: he had a time to chase that another dad had run with five kids. Now other parents have his.
Verbal persuasion Being told you can You believe you can because people you trust say so. In Palma: his coach, a sports doctor and fellow athletes ran beside him to cheer him on.
Physiological states How your body feels You believe you can because you feel strong and ready going in. In Palma: strength, endurance and cardio training with his coach beforehand.
Figure 1. Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy (1977), and where I see each one in Juan Lladó’s run. The matches are my reading of the news coverage, not his own account.

The first one is the strongest. In Bandura’s studies of people who were afraid of snakes, the ones who handled a boa constrictor themselves came away more confident than the ones who watched a therapist do it. Lladó started with one kid in the stroller and added passengers over several years.

Watching is how this spreads. In the Bobo doll studies, preschoolers who watched an adult beat up an inflatable clown went on to copy what they’d seen. Seeing a dad push five kids through a 10K makes the next parent believe it can be done, the same way an article about two moms did for me.

A record also hands you a specific, hard goal. In 2002, psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham summarized 35 years of research on goal setting, and specific, hard goals consistently beat telling people to do their best. Lladó had a number to beat, down to the tenth of a second.

If you want to borrow this for a goal of your own, start with a smaller version of it and pick a number to chase. And if somebody tells you it can’t be done, keep the warning and question the verdict.

What would I say to Juan Lladó?

I’ve never met him. I’ve been in touch with a handful of other stroller-pushing dads and moms around the world, and I hope that someday I get to shake Juan’s hand and congratulate him in person.

Until then, from one stroller dad to another, enhorabuena, Juan. Good luck with the review. I hope the answer from Guinness World Records is yes.

En español

Soy Chad Kempel, el estadounidense que en 2019 estableció la marca de Guinness World Records de 10 kilómetros empujando un carrito con mis quintillizos. Según la prensa de Mallorca, Juan Lladó la ha mejorado en casi cuatro minutos en Palma, con cinco niños en el carrito, a falta de que Guinness World Records revise las pruebas. ¡Enhorabuena, Juan! Espero que el récord sea tuyo.

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