Definition of a hobby jogger

Someone who doesn't make it a lifestyle. Someone who runs for fitness rather than goals.

hobby jogger are the people who pass me every day on my runs

I'm 51 and so will you be

Ritz said he didn't respect 214 marathons untill he ran one.

Normally: people whose ambitions are not competitive. As used here: anyone slower than the poster.

quod era demonstratum wrote:

Next, I've graduated, but I'm training even more than I did in college (80-90mpw) and setting new PRs, and I'm a top local but of course still nowhere near good enough to be sponsored. So now Am I a hobby jogger?

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You fall under the special category of semi-quasi-almost-local-sub elite hobby jogger.

Hobby jogger is obviously meant to be derogatory. So let's add to it. I'm sure you are a Hobby Driver. Some people are Hobby Golfers, Hobby Tennis Players, Hobby Skiers, Hobby Basketball Players. Do I have it right?

"If you wonder if you're a hobby jogger you are a hobby jogger."

Sadly, I am one now.

if you run with one of these

http://amzn.to/z7l1bf

...you are definitely probably most likely just a hobby jogger

I don't like running with stuff in my ears. I have had too much stuff thrown at me on runs to feel comfortable not knowing what might be coming.

Hobby joggers consider merely completing a marathon an accomplishment, while a runner only does if the finishing time was below a certain goal.

Hobby joggers actually look forward to and enjoy post race ammenities and food items, while runners are so nauseus from their race that the last thing they want at that moment is food or beer.

Hobby joggers might wear sweats on race day if it's below 45F, while a runner would not do so even if temps were 30F.

Hobby joggers are usually happy with their race performance, no matter what the time. Runners rarely are pleased as a PR is usually the only thing to make them happy.

Hobby joggers talk about the beautiful scenery they just saw on the 10K they just finished, while the runners missed all that as they were focused on the runner ahead of them that they were trying to catch or stick with.

It's hard to define, but I think this post does a pretty good job of it.

Close, yes.

The beer and food part is a bit off. You may sometimes want/enjoy food and beer after a good race, but you absolutely can't be anticipating them before the race.

people who wear shorts over tights are hobby joggers.

the smartest letsrunner wrote:

I am not wrote:

I think a hobby jogger runs to stay in shape, but a competetive runner runs to win or for time.

Smartest answer all day. From the 13 year-old.

Win.

I'm too slow by LR standards to avoid being considered a hobby jogger--not a big deal. Labels aren't worth as much as getting out and running/racing.

But I do like this list.

Problem with the food/beer--sometimes it's dwindled a lot by the time I'm ready for it.

About being happy with all performances--vs. rarely happy... somewhere in between. I won't stress out if I'm not where I want to be, but I will see what kind of adjustments I need to make to improve. I've aged past PR's so I have to focus on other goals. But I am still goal oriented.

But I do what I do for my own satisfaction--which includes trying to do as well as I can. I won't wear earphones b/c of safety reasons.

XXX_NYC wrote:

Hobby joggers actually look forward to and enjoy post race ammenities and food items, while runners are so nauseus from their race that the last thing they want at that moment is food or beer.

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Not every serious runner suffers from post-race nausea.

Turbo breaks it down wrote:

Letsrun:

10% has beens

40% never weres

50% hobby joggers

Hahahahaa...exactly!

coach d wrote:

If you are not:

(a) A professional athlete making his living of sponsorship, appearance, and/or prize money;

(b) A D1 athlete receiving full/partial sponsorship money for competing;

(c) A coach of (a) or (b) for pay...

you ARE a "hobby jogger" and you are not any better than any others out there. The only people I see using such a term are wannabe non-elites with ego/attitude issues. I have never heard of ANY true professional/elite athlete using such as term.

I agree with this 100%. The discussion should be the difference between actual athletes at the top of their game and everyone else who runs. Just because you run 7 days a week doesn't put you above someone who runs 4 days a week or listens to an ipod. It just means you like it a little more. The poster above is correct, no one who's actually good would speak like this.

Gotta call b.s. here. An elite runner I follow on Twitter used the exact term, "hobby jogger" about a month or so ago. So there goes your theory.

So being slow (by LRC standards) makes me a hobby jogger--ok so what. Bekele would make us all hobby joggers. Perhaps anyone who pushes himself/herself through tempo runs, and intervals is a runner even if the end result is incredibly mediocre as Bekele would see it.