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    "Jogging" versus "Jogger."

    Posts: 1,139 Member
    edited February 27 in Social Groups
    This came up in a discussion on my profile but I thought the larger group would be interested.

    So, we all know know that most runners don't like being called "joggers."

    But I also think that there is a time and a place for the word "jogging" and "jog," as in "cool-down jog" or "jogging to warm up."

    Agree/disagree? Discuss.

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    • Posts: 219 Member
      I agree a runner can jog at times like you said in w/u & c/d, for the record I don't like being called a jogger even if you're doing let say 10min pace to me that's not jogging. Though fast runners may consider that even a jog, not sure.
    • Posts: 4,907 Member
      I don't mind when people say " jogger" or "jogging" in place of running, as long as you don't say that I'm NOT a runner.
    • Posts: 1,236 Member
      Total ROCK ON discussion - Love it.

      Brutally Honest here - I will blame articles in Runner's World for me not embracing word "jogging".

      Too many cartoons, jokes and comments that follow their article that eventually made me think "What the hell? I didn't jus' kick my *kitten* to be associated to that"

      And then there are folks in the world of lifting - the body fitness gurus jus' to prove whatever they ever are trying to prove have erased the words "runner", "run", "running" from their vocab. I guess it makes them feel powerful. So be it.

      Thanks for not posting this in General Forum. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 805 Member
      Blasphemy!!!! ???? I just say warm up/cool down or easy pace. ????
    • Posts: 781 Member
      The word jogging just makes me think of terry cloth warm up suits and the 70's.
    • Posts: 4,489 Member
      Jogger
      woman-mature-jogging-headphones-233jn050510.jpg
    • Posts: 1,139 Member
      One thing I think is interesting about "jogging" is that it implies something "light" and "not serious." Sometimes that is exactly what I'm doing, just loosening up / warming up / cooling down, so I like to use the word for those things.

      But if I'm absolutely dying at the end of a tough long run I might be going slower than my "jog" a few days earlier. In NO CASE will I call that a "jog"! That is a HARD RUN!
    • Posts: 625 Member
      I don't jog, I run...

      BUT I use the word jog sometime, especially for speedwork.... Ex: 800m@3K pace, 400m recovery jog between repeats. That slow painful running between repeats is jogging in my mind.

      My former "coach'' used to say ''joggining'' for slow same place legs moving.. It was funny that everyone knew what he meant.
    • Posts: 805 Member
      Doug where'd you get that picture of me?! I'm so embarrassed!
    • Posts: 1,139 Member
      Jogger
      woman-mature-jogging-headphones-233jn050510.jpg

      Sure, but "Jogging":
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    • Posts: 138 Member
      I can careless what you call me as long as you don't run me over with your car.
    • Posts: 586 Member
      jogging-yogging-anchorman-ron-burgundy-meme-269x286.jpg

      EDIT- I have been banned for so long I forget how to post images... fail....

      I fixed if for ya.
    • Posts: 840 Member
      Here is the differnce between "joggers" and "runners": Joggers don't get pissed when you call them a runner.
    • Posts: 9,420 Member

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      EDIT- I have been banned for so long I forget how to post images... fail....
    • Posts: 9,420 Member
      Also, we need to take this issue to MFP because of their "X:00/mph Running (jogging)" cardio database entries. Which is it? Huh?!

      There's bigger fish to fry with the MFP database.

      For God's sake, I'M NOT STILL WALKING
    • Posts: 9,420 Member
      I can careless what you call me as long as you don't run me over with your car.

      Ok. Now everybody in the coffee shop is looking at the crazy laughing lady.
    • Posts: 6,553 Member
      I need to get me a "jogging outfit" so i can look like a badass at my marathon in December. Be looking like Tony Soprano. yeah, that's right. I from freakning New Jersey.

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    • Posts: 4,489 Member
      I need to get me a "jogging outfit" so i can look like a badass at my marathon in December. Be looking like Tony Soprano. yeah, that's right. I from freakning New Jersey.

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      I'm going to run in a velour Bosnian-style tracksuit for a cool weather training race. Watch me.
    • Posts: 477 Member
      You need to trademark DaveJogging. Defined as: Dave Running Easy. Screw you guys, I'm going for a trail jog.
    • Posts: 477 Member
      Crap, I meant DougJogging. One more thing: jogging in a track suit in this weather is called "heat training."
    • Posts: 432 Member
      I don't know. I always associate the word"jogging" with bad form. Crossing arms in front, collapsed chest, bouncing motion instead of controlled forward momentum. To me, jogging is like a learning curve for running. That's how it was treated at my schools runners club, anyways.
    • Posts: 4,489 Member
      Crap, I meant DougJogging. One more thing: jogging in a track suit in this weather is called "heat training."

      You wish
    • Posts: 783 Member
      Also, we need to take this issue to MFP because of their "X:00/mph Running (jogging)" cardio database entries. Which is it? Huh?!

      It's definitely not the second one when it's 5:30/mile!

      I agree with Josee - I run at easy pace to warm up and cool down but in between reps I will jog.
    • Posts: 471 Member
      I just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

      Can call it anything you'd like and I won't be offended.
    • Posts: 138 Member
      I can careless what you call me as long as you don't run me over with your car.

      After this morning; the above ^^^^^^^^ *infinity.. You say tomAto, I say tomaRto, as long as I'm shuffling along I don't care what you call it .
    • Posts: 477 Member
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      You wish

      I wish for so many things...
    • Posts: 477 Member
      Yes! Posted my trail jog and got the comment "awesome jogging!" There you have it....jogging is truly and definitively awesome. Especially when you're heat training in a Bosnian/Jersey velour track suit and listening to "let's get physical" on your Walkman.
    • Posts: 9,420 Member
      I haven't listened to music while running for some time, but I'm going to buy lets get physical and dedicate my next run to Dave.
    • Posts: 103 Member
      I love you guys.

      Also, in college, I jogged in a terrycloth turquoise track suit. My form was awful, and I only joggled single miles at a time and I justified eating horrendous amounts of junk because of running ONE mile earlier in the day. But terry cloth. In bright turquoise. It's so bad, it almost circles back around to good.

      Now I wish I still had it. I think there are some epic photos that could have been taken, that will now never be.

      Edit: I realized I spelled "joggled" instead of "jogged", and was about to fix it, but I think "joggled" is a much better description of what my running was like back then.
    • Posts: 575 Member
      Since my body doesn't understand the difference between "jogging" and "running", then I don't care either. :drinker:
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