Running vs Jogging

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  • RAmelia63
    RAmelia63 Posts: 32 Member
    This should help: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Jogging_vs_Running
  • JTick
    JTick Posts: 2,131 Member
    I am a runner...all 12:00 min/mile of me is a runner. I've worked too hard and pushed for too long to be considered less.
  • MereMe
    MereMe Posts: 312 Member
    If I would differentiate, when I "jog", it's easy. Conversational pace, and when I am done I feel like I got a good, easy workout. "Easy runs" are more like jogs IMO.

    My faster effort workouts are "runs". The labored breathing, pushing harder, sore the next day, etc.

    I usually just call everything a run though - it's either easy, long, tempo, interval, etc.

    I agree! My jogging allows me to chat. When I can't breathe and and pushing toward a goal, I am running!
  • runnermama81
    runnermama81 Posts: 388 Member
    I think the word jog should be taken out of the English language.
  • MereMe
    MereMe Posts: 312 Member
    A jogger keeps running (or "jogging") in place when he/she reaches a red stoplight. A runner just stands there looking annoyed.

    This may sound like a joke, but it's true: A runner is interested in moving forward at a particular pace; a jogger is just interested in moving for some period of time. Both are completely valid; it's all about your attitude and why you are doing it, and has little to do with speed.

    ^this cracks me up! Validation - I really am a runner!!!! :D
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
    Traditionally, for the purposes of fitness evaluation, a successful run is anything better than a 5.2 (12:00 pace).

    . . .


    Pearl Izumi ran ad copy a few years ago during the "run like an animal":campaign
    "IF YOU RAN WITHOUT SACRIFICE, CONGRATULATIONS. YOU JUST JOGGED. Running hurts. It always has. Woolly mammoths didn’t just roll over onto a plate and serve themselves up to prehistoric man with fries and a shake. They had to be caught – and running down woolly mammoths was a *****. Guess what? Running is still a *****. But one with a purpose. It teaches us that good things do not come easy. It teaches us that hard work will be rewarded and laziness will be punished. Don’t expect to learn those life lessons from running’s shiftless stepchild; jogging. Next time you suffer on the roads or trails, suffer proudly."

    Or what God has to say, "Do you not know that in a race all runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as o get he prize"
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