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nyssagafkjen
nyssagafkjen Posts: 2 Member
edited November 18 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey. I have a question. I have tried to institute jogging into my walks. My dog and I generally take a mile walk daily. She's a border collie. Walks use to wear her out, but not any more. So now I try to add jogging into our walks. We can do a mile in a little over 16 minutes. When we add jogging into it, it seems to slow us down a little bit. Our time was 18 minutes today. I had to slow down to catch my breathe today.
Am I pushing it to hard?
Is this worth trying to institute into our walks or should I just lengthen our walks?

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  • dm5859
    dm5859 Posts: 81 Member
    Why not do both? Jog every other day and increase your walking distance on the other days. I would also add an easy day to give you each a little break.
  • SoxyKitten
    SoxyKitten Posts: 80 Member
    I have to walk my border collie 5 miles to wear her out & shes 13! I'd suggest increasing the distance you are walking & perhaps add in some running intervals for part of the walk. 30 secs running, 30 secs walking for recovery.
  • nyssagafkjen
    nyssagafkjen Posts: 2 Member
    Oh. I don't know if we will get to five miles lol. Diamond is 2-3 and was kept as a indoor dog that didn't go on walks. She was rescued from a bad situation a couple months ago. Thanks for the advice.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    nyssagafkjen wrote: »
    Oh. I don't know if we will get to five miles lol. Diamond is 2-3 and was kept as a indoor dog that didn't go on walks. She was rescued from a bad situation a couple months ago. Thanks for the advice.

    unless its due to injury or malformed limbs, your dog can walk further than a mile.

  • FatWithFatness
    FatWithFatness Posts: 315 Member
    I would continue walking and work in some light-medium sprints, 20-30 seconds, every 1-2 minutes, just to get yourself used to it and then gradually up the difficulty, both you and your pup will adapt and get better at it.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    if you want to start running, do c25k and walk the dog separately, or teach her to run with you.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    if you want to start running, do c25k and walk the dog separately, or teach her to run with you.

    I was going to say to do C25k with your dog. I have done it with mine in the past. It is good for the dog to ease into longer running too if it is not used to it.
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