Thoner = boner
Thoner = boner
You are a runner if none of you weekly mileage totals end in "9". A jogger could care less!
Keep running kiddo's, you will get there someday!
Well, since I miss only about 5-6 runs per year, I will still count myself as a runner.
You're a jogger if you spend more time on these boards than you do thinking about and actually doing your own running.
Sorry, Stepay, but you just got demoted back down to jogger again (smile).
True Indeed Knower
Good Grief JEH, I know you're just joking around with me, but that is one hard standard to hold to.
If it takes that to be a runner, then I don't want to be one. Usually if I miss a run, I will try to make up for it with a longer run the next day or more hills or whatever. I'm not training for the Olympics, or even to be all that good really. If I miss 5-6 scheduled runs a year, then I do.
What about this:
The guy who just has some inate ability and with no exercise other than jogging 3/4 of a mile before playing racquetball and then swimming laps 4 days a week, he enters a 5K and runs 17:30. Is he a runner?
And these guys do exist.
I agree with the 8min/9min mile definition. I was actually going to say more like 7min-men 8.30min-women per mile definition since this would incorporate running mileage per week into this. If you're running more than 35 miles a week and been doing this for a few months you should break 7min/mile or somethings wrong with your training. Same thing for the women.
Runners are anything faster than 7mins/mile race pace....
In between this is a grey area that you will have to figure out for yourself....good luck.
get where, oldtimer?
Ok. So...race pace for what distance?
Perhaps one is a jogger if one actually cares about these two arbitrary and essentially meaningless terms.
This is just elitism for runners.
.....you know, get to being a runner. Takes years to get to the 100 plus pinnacle!
Of course I was giving you a hard time... by my own definition, I would have only been a runner for half of last month. That criteria would never suffice...
Anyway, a runner is someone who works on achieving goals that include time/distance, irrespective of what this pace may be, or the "work" put in to get there. So, the 17:30 5Ker is a runner if he has a goal in mind (regardless whether or not he achieves it), but he is not a runner, if he just does it without a single thought towards a goal for that or any future race. In my opinion, it is doubtful that anyone running under 25min for a 5K would never consider some sort of time/distance goal no matter how talented they were.
10min/mile for 5k is walking, 10k is walking, half marathon is jogging and marathon is jogging.
Thoner,
Why is it that everytime you post you have to mention how far you run each week? Here's a guess - low self-esteem. Go get some.
Many of us either run that far currently or have had several-year stretches when we ran that far and then some. Don't hear us talking about it all the time.
Here it is in a nutshell for you: You're a noble running stud if you get up faithfully every morning and put in your 70-120 miles per week. You're even more noble if you don't tell anyone about it.
If you have to ask the question, chances are you aren't.
Hey dude, congatulations on your running......looks like you have joined the ranks of "Thoness"!
Ok. I thought you were talking about a 7 minute pace being the milestone for determining a walker vs. a runner.
Do you mean that someone who runs a marathon at 7:30 pace (3:16:30) is a jogger and not a runner?