What's the real line between runner and jogger

How about running more than 3 miles?

Now... don't confuse this with the difference between runners and sprinters.

age as in getting older....

runners run in order to run better

while

joggers jog simply to jog.

Whay the guy above me just said.

Runners are athletes. Joggers are douche-bags.

When you fill out the race application, pay the fee, and run as hard as you can when the gun goes off.

Wown what an original idea for a thread.

This has never been done before.

You are a great mind.

Congratulations and thank you for sharing your immense brain power with all the internet.

You twat.

There is none. When you get older you'll understand.

For a woman a jogger wears a jogging bra while a runner has trained her tits off.

9/10 Vibrams = Jogger (not to mean wearing shoes means runner). troll away...

I don't think it's a matter of pace, but rather a matter of effort and motive. If you train your ass off in order to improve your 5k time as much as possible over a prolonged period of time, but you only manage a 22:30, you're a runner. If you just dick around at a casual pace for a few miles, 3-4 days a week, and occasionally enter 5ks, 10ks, half-marathons, etc just to say you finished, you're a jogger regardless of your finishing time.

Of course, I think times can be strongly correlated with effort and motive, but aren't necessarily the line in the sand.

The running gods set forth in 1973 that a 7:00 pace or faster is to be called running.

Where most people are mistaken is thinking that there is something wrong with jogging or being a jogger.

ripvanracer wrote:

The running gods set forth in 1973 that a 7:00 pace or faster is to be called running.

Where most people are mistaken is thinking that there is something wrong with jogging or being a jogger.

When I was in HS I remember that we used to say that if you couldn't at least run 6:00 pace (we didn't say how far but presumably for > 3 miles) you were a jogger.

So I would probably stick with my highschool sensibilities and say that if you can't break 19 minutes, for a 5k (regardless of age) you are a jogger.

So now that I'm old (although I did break 19 this year for the first time in a long time) I consider myself a jogger with a runner's moon 'rising.

You are a runner if you are concerned about improving and do everything you can towards this. Whether you are a 13:30 5k runner or a 22:00 runner.

Jefe in the CO wrote:

When I was in HS I remember that we used to say that if you couldn't at least run 6:00 pace (we didn't say how far but presumably for > 3 miles) you were a jogger.

So I would probably stick with my highschool sensibilities and say that if you can't break 19 minutes, for a 5k (regardless of age) you are a jogger.

So now that I'm old (although I did break 19 this year for the first time in a long time) I consider myself a jogger with a runner's moon 'rising.

I don't know what's more sad: that you're taking advice from high schoolers, or that you haven't gotten any wiser since then...

Some days we are runners and some days we are joggers.

break it up wrote:

Whether you are a 13:30 5k runner or a 22:00 jogger.

Fixed

Pace has nothing to do with runner vs jogger, you slap on a race number you're a runner, if all you do is loop around the neighborhood you're a jogger.

It's quite simple, actually. If you can get into Boston, you are a runner. you're welcome.