What do YOU call Running and Jogging?

6:47 pace or faster is running.

6:48 pace or slower is jogging.

A little more seriously, I think of jogging as involving less attention to purposeful stride mechanics - i.e., noodling along while "sitting in the bucket" or with a slow stride frequency.

Nomatter how fast I'm going. 5:00-10:00 minute pace. I'm running.

A "jog" is a slow run. So, jogging is running.

I agree with you, running is where the runner loves running, it's not just a way to lose weight. I think that's really the line. Once you start to love running for running, that's when you're a runner.

I think it's all relative. For me, I'd consider jogging anything 8:00 mile pace or slower. But then again, that's just me. There's no true definition of jogging that I know of.

I cosider myself a "runner", but my true recovery days I actually consider recovery "jogs", not recovery "runs". Everything else is a run: easy runs, tempo runs, etc...

I'd say it's more of a mental state than anything. Running means you're trying to accomplish something pertaining to your training: a tempo at 5:00 pace, an easy run at 7:00 pace, or recovery between intervals at 12:00 pace. Jogging doesn't mean anything to the person doing it. It could be pacing your girlfriend in a 5k at 10:00 pace or meeting an old high school or college buddy for a run and catching up at 7:00 pace.

I'd call a jog any running that is casual and relaxed, not necessarily worrying about form or time. Like when your coach is on the other side of the field and wants to talk to you. He might yell "hey come jog over here real quick, i wanna talk to ya".

Seriously, running is not a sport, it requires zero athleticism, therefore, it's all jogging, only sprinting is running

You can easily have a conversation while jogging. You cannot while running.

Ayatollah of RocknRolla wrote:

You can easily have a conversation while jogging. You cannot while running.

So elite runners that are cruising along at sub 6 minute pace and talking with their training partners are not running?

VOX said: I'll go first: To me, running has more of a psychological aspect to it as well as physical, while jogging is just a physical activity.

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That's a misguided notion..."running is more of a psychological aspect...jogging a quick way to lose weight..."??? No, jogging is just very easy running. For some some people a 12 min pace is running...they are working very hard...but for people who can do 15 min 5Ks for example, 12 min pace is very very easy running. When humans are traveling bipedally (not just leaping), if both feet are off the ground at the same time...they are running. jogging is just very slow running.

Running con be defined by the following:

Male / Female

Age 1-14 - anything faster than walking

Male

Age 15 - 35

Running - Faster than 8:00

Jogging - 8:01 or slower

Female

Age 15 - 35

Running - Faster than 9:00

Jogging - 9:01 or slower

You can come up with things for older than 35...

This gets to the crazy point of the guy in your office that says "I just ran the Chicago Marathon" then tells you he "ran" it in 4:15...

I say there is a time cut off for "Running" vs "Completing" a marathon-

Using my scale - 3:30 for males and Sub 4hrs for females

Just my 2cents

-MBC

I used to train at 6 mpm, but after 40 years of running I am now at 8 mpm (which I hate), but I'd get mad at anyone calling me a jogger. I agree with the other posters -- it's about attitude. joggers do it for the exercise, losing weight, etc. runners do it because, well, they're runners.

A rectangle is also a square.

A jog is also a run.

Jogging is something you do with attire that doesn't make you identifiable as someone that is "running" (e.g. sweatpants, tracksuit, 6"+ inseam shorts). If you should get passed by someone while on the road, it doesn't really matter since you weren't really running anyway.

the dancing cougar wrote:

A rectangle is also a square.

um, wrong.

I agree that the distinction is purpose mostly. Runners train, and joggers exercise. Anything a runner does is running, and anything a jogger does is jogging. Joggers, also, "do" races because they hope to finish a 5k or HM or Marathon, and Runners race.

math wrote:

the dancing cougar wrote:

A rectangle is also a square.

um, wrong.

So s/he accidentally transposed rectangle and square. The intent was clear and correct. Jogging is a proper subset of running.

To me it's all about effort and/or purpose. If I'm going out with a training goal in mind or actual planned pacing or workout, then it is "running." If I'm just going out to get some fresh air and clear my head with no goal or mission in mind or just a relaxed recovery run, I call it "going for a jog." Although sometimes the jog turns into a run if I am feeling good and feel like pushing it partway through.