It's probably a gray area, but when you have 70+ year old dudes running sub-3 it's impossible to avoid labeling anything slower as hobby jogger.
It's probably a gray area, but when you have 70+ year old dudes running sub-3 it's impossible to avoid labeling anything slower as hobby jogger.
Free_the_thigh wrote:
If you are telling a non-runner your time, just entering a marathon is enough to make you not a hobby jogger
If you telling a runner, you must be no more than 15% slower than the runners marathon pb for them to not consider you a hobby jogger
Not very smart, are you?
Asking for a friend... wrote:
Male and Female
Someone here once called Jack Foster a hobby jogger so I guess you need to be under 2:11 at least.
Thank goodness there's yet ANOTHER thread about who is and who isn't a hobby jogger. This is just what we were needing.
Free_the_thigh wrote:
If you telling a runner, you must be no more than 15% slower than the runners marathon pb for them to not consider you a hobby jogger
This or some variation
hipster doofus wrote:
Thank goodness there's yet ANOTHER thread about who is and who isn't a hobby jogger. This is just what we were needing.
And this
Instarunners get paid, and some do nothing put post pics of them in sports bras, selling Biofreeze, sunglasses, KT tape, etc.
As they get paid to run, (and post in IG) they are not hobbyjoggers, right????
I mean Stephanipiruns and jessrunsblessed, and carlyspat...they are pros!
Faster than the Brojos PRs.
Asking for a friend... wrote:
Free_the_thigh wrote:
If you are telling a non-runner your time, just entering a marathon is enough to make you not a hobby jogger
If you telling a runner, you must be no more than 15% slower than the runners marathon pb for them to not consider you a hobby jogger
Not very smart, are you?
You are just jealous of my thighs
If you make the top 10% of your age group and qualify for Boston, you are awesome like me.
fixed that for you wrote:
Everyone's mentality wrote:
If you're slower than me you're a hobby jogger. if you're faster then me you're elite!
If you're slower than me you're a hobby jogger. if you're faster then me you're doping.
This and the 2 posts proceeding this post were golden!!!
According to an article I read, you are jogging when you are running 6 mph or slower (10:00 pace) so therefore the cutoff between hobby runner and hobby jogger is 4:22:11.
For a male 3:30
Woman 3:50.
Close thread.
applying the standard formula of adding 5 minutes to my own and my wife's PR's, I'd say the cutoff to avoid hobby jogger status is about 3:00 for men and 3:30 for women.
Charlesvdw wrote:
For a male 3:30
Woman 3:50.
Close thread.
Elite race walkers can do a sub-3 marathon. If a race walker blows by you during a marathon, I think it's safe to assume you're jogging.
Captn Obvi wrote:
Instarunners get paid, and some do nothing put post pics of them in sports bras, selling Biofreeze, sunglasses, KT tape, etc.
As they get paid to run, (and post in IG) they are not hobbyjoggers, right????
I mean Stephanipiruns and jessrunsblessed, and carlyspat...they are pros!
I don't know who they are, but if they figured out some way to make a living as a runner even though they are very slow, then it's not a hobby. Not much in life is a meritocracy.
Asking for a friend... wrote:
Male and Female
You really need validation from people who makes up stupid f$@king terms (on one website) to validate their own condescension and elitism? Give me a break dude.
it's a hobby unless you are a pro wrote:
For it to be other than a hobby you need to be a pro. Sub-2:20 for men might get you to a point where you can get free shoes but no real sponsorship (a semi-pro but still a hobby). Can a 2:14 guy make a living with no other job? Maybe. Sub-2:10 for sure can be a pro.
I don't think people are offended by the hobby part as much as the jogging part. It may be a hobby, but I am not jogging. This is let's run, right?
I make it easy for everybody, even the older folks;)
Hobby walking: less than 40% of your AG%
Hobby jogging: less than 60% of your AG%
Hobby running: less than 75% of your AG%
Running: less than 85% of your AG%
Flying: above 85% of your AG%
Everybody happy now???
Only people who care about the hobby jogger label are letsrun forum.
kinda fast but not really wrote:
Sub 3 hours for men. Sub 3:30 for women. My personal standards.
Sub 3 lol. Anything above 2:20 is hobby jogger. Basically, if you are not national or nearing national level, you are a hobby jogger.