So a friend asked me if I fancied running in a 10k event and thought maybe, why not.
So I went onto there web site for details and was reading through when I came to a part were it said so if your a runner or "just a jogger" at which point I hit the exit button.
I move in a running motion but I'm not fast but I "run" as fast as I can over the prescribed distance so am I a runner or "just a jogger.
What is the difference, who makes these elitist decisions,some whippity thin racing machine who will probably one day end up as "just a jogger" surely not some little old pot bellied "running" machine like me who trundles along at the fastest pace he/she can.
Why is this elitist distinction needed, is it just to stroke egos
I run therefore I am
End of rant -- well for now!
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I am.. really... I don't think I have completed 5K in 30 minutes more than a few times, since Graduation??? I only did it then because I thought I had to... duh xxxx
They also go on about actual run/jog speed, got them all figured out. I plan to say, when asked, that I jog as that is the part of my structured training for the run! See what they say then!
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If l check my times against the ‘classification’ it turns out that I’m a ‘slower’ runner. Hey, The Runner! But if l push it further and compare my times with those of my age group, I’m sure l can leap into the ‘elite’ stage. Wow, I’m getting dizzy, l better stop!
Narks me too. I passed a man with a dog around 5.30 one morning and he said how early it was for a jog. Grrr ... I'm a runner. Jogging, to me, is a less serious pastime
In a nutshell, I read somewhere else, regarding a 5k if you can run it in less than 30 minutes you are a runner, over 30 minutes, a jogger, most people who enter a 10k can run/jog that in less than 90 minutes,ie, if you run a 5k in 40 minutes, then if you keep up that same pace in a 10k that would be 80 minutes, 10 minutes less than that 90 minute cut off time mentioned earlier.
Well said rolysmate ...it takes us all a while & a little persuasion from Mr Smooth/Laura/Jo etc for is to believe that we are ‘proper runners’ & it’s because the ‘whippety thin’ people are what we conceive to be ‘proper runners’ but like I said in my post the other day someone, somewhere first uttered the words ‘you’re/they’re/I’m not built for running’ how ridiculous??!! If you put one foot in front of the other at a faster than walking pace you are, indeed, a runner....good for you for making a quick exit from that Roly....they don’t deserve you 😉 we should all wear our running gear with pride 🏃♂️🏃🏼♀️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Hear Hear!!! I always think of jogging as a term invented in California in the 70's - 80's around the same time as sweatbands and Jane Fonda's burn. Never understand why they try and divide it.
I'm right with you rolysmate - that 'just' is a really killer...
I think "What use of language will encourage people to be active in a healthy way?" I know there's a pace related definition of something like 7min/km (a pace I know not of on a personal level) and I did not take umbrage when Laura was encouraging me not to go too fast by saying 'just a light jog' - but that is not the same as being described as a jogger or as going jogging. (My mother persists in asking if I have been jogging. She would never describe my father or brother as going jogging.... hmmm... must do an experiment and see what she says about my sister...)
To be fair though it sounds as though in this instance maybe they were trying to sound inclusive and get more people to participate rather than having different categories and dividing people into 'runners' and 'joggers' themselves?
On the race entry form it is probaby so they can gauge who many front of pack and back of pack entrants they have and how to order the starting grid. I very much doubt a race organiser had any pejorative intent in mind. Organising races is a more complex business than might be imagined. Runners who are aiming for competitive times do not want to have to wade through their slower brethren for the first couple of km, and 'hobbyist runners' do not want to get jostled and barged by the speedy ones trying to get past them.
It never ceases to amaze me how much it matters to people which noun is used to describe their activity or how snobbish people are about the term jogging. For me personally, if I am doing sprint or up to 400m or so I am generally running: I am pushing my speed to the upper areas of my all out max. If I am running anything further than that I am gearing down and jogging. Any pace I can sustain for more than a few minutes is jogging, whether it's a 26min 5k or a 6hr ultra distance.
On a similar note, many people are unable to distinguish between weightlifting, powerlifting and bodybuilding, but I am not going to go out of my way to get offended if they use the wrong terminology.
Totally agree . . . I personally don’t care what people call it, I run / jog because I like it and for health and fitness. I’m totally uncompetitive and probably quite anti-social too as I like to run alone
As long as Michael Johnson says I need to slow down because it is supposed to be a ‘light jog’, I consider myself a jogger and a runner and I take both very serious.
Runner and jogger. They are just words. I try not to get too hung up on them. One person’s fast is another’s slow and so on. Everything is relative, right? 🙂
It is Decker but it's the use of the term "just a jogger" , I may not be fast and yes jog probably relates to my speed BUT I put just as much effort into it
Maybe a poor choice of words using “just” on their part, and you absolutely give as much effort to the activity. To me they are two different types of activities, equally valuable.
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