when is it not hobby jogging?

listen folks wrote:

"Hobby Jogger" is a pejorative term that I, and most LRCers use to describe slowpokes.

I consider running a hobby, but I do not consider myself a 'hobby jogger.' Others might. But it's all relative.

It is used that way, but that's really silly. Technically speaking, if you aren't making a living from it, it's a hobby, so "Hobby jogger" or "Hobby Runner" either one is accurate for the vast majority of runners...I suspect people don't really like the word "jogger" in there. Really, all people should embrace that. I allow those on high school or college teams to be excluded from that term, but that's an exception, and if pressed, I could agree that perhaps only those receiving scholarship money should be excluded from that term.

Really, people shouldn't care how they are labeled. A bit of self importance I think to get all worked up over being called a Hobby Jogger. When that term is used, it is almost ALWAYS correct. Dathan Ritzenhein is not a Hobby Jogger, but currently (unless he's getting money for running that I don't know about), Don Sage would be. He would be that even if he ran an open 5,000 somewhere in 13:29. It's just a term which defines your financial status with regard to running.

That means everyone on here is a hobbyjogger.

CORRECT! (well, except for those rare few who post here and do it for a living).

Brat- you wished you ran these times.

You make no sense and probably wish you ran times like me, 29:50 10K, 14:10 5K and 2:37 marathon

Flagpole wrote:

Steve Martin wrote:

That means everyone on here is a hobbyjogger.

CORRECT! (well, except for those rare few who post here and do it for a living).

This is one of the few times I completely agree with Flagpole. I've broken almost every time criteria posted in this thread, and have never been anything but a hobby jogger. I didn't even have a scholarship in college. I won $100 at a road race once, but that's it.

well..... wrote:

It's only called "hobby jogging" by certain individuals with an inflated sense of self worth based on some meager accomplishments in running. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that none of the US distance runners who have an Olympic or World Championship medal of any color ever use the term to describe another runner.

Thank you. This is exactly correct, although I'd extend it to pretty much any distance runner anywhere who isn't a total a***ole.

The average age of anyone using this term on these forums is around seventeen.

No Way wrote:

This is one of the few times I completely agree with Flagpole. I've broken almost every time criteria posted in this thread, and have never been anything but a hobby jogger. I didn't even have a scholarship in college. I won $100 at a road race once, but that's it.

I have won even more money and value from races than you (though I would bet you are faster), and I was always a "Hobby Jogger". I am currently not even that as I have chronic plantar fasciitis now along with chronic calf problems and a ligament and/or tendon injury on the INSIDE of my left knee that has had me sidelined as a runner since May. So, I long for the days of being a "hobby jogger". My knee injury is such that the doc says I'll have to let it repair itself and that at this point it is not operable.

I pretty much quit running at age 22.

I finished school, trained for an ran a marathon that I was happy with, then ran a sub-4 minute mile the next spring. Like most runners, that had been a lifetime goal. I did it. Then I realized that I still wasn't fast enough to make money. That was my last race until earlier this year. Almost exactly 6 years later I ran a 24 minute 5k. Well into "hobby jogger" territory. The reality is though, I ran times that almost no one on these forums has ever run, and was still just a hobby jogger.

Everyone knows what a hobby jogger is. It's a derogatory term for an adult who runs a 5k at roughly 18 min or slower, give or take a minute or so.

The hobby linguists who try to turn this into a question about whether or not you earn money or not are the ones you should despise. These are the same kind of people who won't stop arguing that you can't run at "threshold" intensity because there's no well defined threshold. Likewise they will ruin threads by pointing out (for the umpth time) that jogging is a "workout" too.

A word doesn't mean what it once meant, its meaning is defined by how it is used today. And etymology naz|s are among the worst kind of internet a-holes.

'It's just a term which defines your financial status with regard to running.

'I allow those on high school '

Why allow when they doing receive any money - other than the obvious, that you were on one

'I could agree that perhaps only those receiving scholarship money should be excluded from that term'

I knew a guy who got an Oxford Blue, he was not ony any scholarship for athletics he just got in on grades. Doe that make him a hobby jogger because the system is different in the uk

I know plent of club runners who would have run rings round you would you call them hobby joggers as they lapped you!

Absolutely nobody who was a decent runner would call a 13:29 runner a hobby jogger

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hobbyjogger

Just because an pro athlete is not a hobby jogger does not mean everybody else is. The impication is that you are not very good

Did you wear grey sweatpants? Hobby jogger is someone who wears sweatpants to run. Hobby jogger gets their cardio in.

Hobby joggers do the run/walk thing.

Runners never gallowalk.

A runner never ever wears sweatpants for a run.

Please don't tell me I need to embrace the inner hobby jogger.

If someone calls you a jogger on a run, it's basically the same as calling you a giant loser.