RunningAHEAD - Topic: Difference Between Running and Jogging (your opinion)

nakedfool

runnin from hell

posted: 8/30/2008 at 7:56 PM

I once read that many "Runners" only classify running when you are traveling at an 8 min mile pace or faster...anything slower than that is considered "Jogging". What is your opinion on this?

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willamona

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posted: 8/30/2008 at 8:03 PM

Chia running rules.

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chloe36

posted: 8/30/2008 at 9:00 PM

I guess I've never "ran" in my life Wink

In my crazy head running versus jogging is a distance thing. I "run" 8 miles or more, and I "jog" a couple laps.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/30/2008 at 9:17 PM

Quote from nakedfool on 8/30/2008 at 7:56 PM:

I once read that many "Runners" only classify running when you are traveling at an 8 min mile pace or faster...anything slower than that is considered "Jogging". What is your opinion on this?

Yeah...and some of those "runners" have logged half the miles I have this year. Only time I hit sub-8 is going down hill. I think whether one is a runner or a jogger is up to the individual. I kind of like the race entry thing, myself.

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piper0110

posted: 8/30/2008 at 9:23 PM

Someone much smarter than me said something along these lines: Joggers have to tell themselves to go for a run. Runners can't wait for their next run. The basic being that no matter the pace, if you're doing it for the joy of the sport, you're a runner.

willamona

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posted: 8/30/2008 at 9:35 PM

Runners run. Once you go out the door or hit the treadmill, you are running. Jogging is a word nonrunners made up to make slow-paced runners feel bad. If you are are moving by your own two feet, and at some point during your stride both feet are off the ground, you are running. It's really that simple.

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nakedfool

runnin from hell

posted: 8/30/2008 at 9:39 PM

Quote from willamona on 8/30/2008 at 9:35 PM:

Runners run. Once you go out the door or hit the treadmill, you are running. Jogging is a word nonrunners made up to make slow-paced runners feel bad. If you are are moving by your own two feet, and at some point during your stride both feet are off the ground, you are running. It's really that simple.

ill take that....

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Figbash

posted: 8/30/2008 at 9:53 PM

Joggers are people I pass when I'm out running. Wink

Seriously, jogging is simply a term for running that appeared in the 70's. Unfortunately it didn't pass with the 70's. Tom

CanadianMeg

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posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:00 PM
modified: 8/30/2008 at 10:01 PM

Quote from piper0110 on 8/30/2008 at 9:23 PM:

Someone much smarter than me said something along these lines: Joggers have to tell themselves to go for a run. Runners can't wait for their next run. The basic being that no matter the pace, if you're doing it for the joy of the sport, you're a runner.

I like that. Big grin

I would add running has a positive connotation and jogging has a negative one. Does the phrase jogging conjure up images of velour track suits and headbands for anyone else? Clowning around

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:04 PM

Quote from CanadianMeg on 8/30/2008 at 10:00 PM:

Does the phrase jogging conjure up images of velour track suits and headbands for anyone else?

Yes...and Ron Burgundy. Wink

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remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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xor

posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:05 PM
modified: 8/30/2008 at 10:12 PM

Quote from willamona on 8/30/2008 at 9:35 PM:

Jogging is a word nonrunners made up to make slow-paced runners feel bad.

That sounds nice and it is fun to say. It's also not even kinda, sorta true. In the US, we have our buddy Coach Bowerman to thank for originally popularizing the word "jogging". I would never consider him to be a nonrunner. It traces back further and outside the US (a couple relevant links found here). Anyway. I don't know anyone that actually changes terms between "jogging" and "running" based on the same exact pace for everyone. A great many people *do* mean "slow running" when they say "jogging". But not everybody. An 8:01 pace is quite speedy for some folks... and obviously slow for others. My opinion is that it gets used as a pejorative, which is what willamona's joke (?) was getting at, and so I don't use it. You are walking or you are running (or hopping or skipping or whathaveyou).

willamona

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posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:20 PM

Dammit, srlopez! Can't you let me have fun here? Seriously. I have one thing to say to you.....

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mikeymike

posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:23 PM

I jog all the time.

Runners run

Jayr

posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:31 PM

In my opinion it's all based on ability and persective. For someone who runs at Marathon 2:59 to 3:10... That's really running right.... Wrong!!!! Just a jog for the guy who runs 2:04..... So the question almost becomes time and space?

brerfootbill

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posted: 8/30/2008 at 10:37 PM

I can run AND jog at the same time! Big grin

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