How do you know if you are a hobby jogger? Easy, just follow these simple rules.
Males: Running any time slower than a woman has ever run (Woman's WR) = hobby jobber.
Females: Running any time slower than a 13 year old girl has ever run (Per ARRS) = hobby jogger.
Simple!
So all of let’s run(maybe 99.9%) are Hobby Joggers since I assume none of us can run 2:14 for the marathon
I am a male in my mid 40s and I am a hobby jogger. My definition of the female hobby jogger is that if any of them lose to me, then they’re not a serious runner. I run a 5k in 18:30s.
Anyone who has jogging as hobby. Jogging is low HR activity done by foot. Faster than walking but slower than running. Joggers never try to get their HRs up because it might be dangerous for them. Once a jogger starts to have ambitions and wants to participate in a race, he becomes a runner but it's not good for everybody to have that kind of ambitions. This topic was discussed by Lydiard already half century ago.
Baltsu wrote:
Anyone who has jogging as hobby. Jogging is low HR activity done by foot. Faster than walking but slower than running. Joggers never try to get their HRs up because it might be dangerous for them. Once a jogger starts to have ambitions and wants to participate in a race, he becomes a runner but it's not good for everybody to have that kind of ambitions. This topic was discussed by Lydiard already half century ago.
You missed “in well trainee athletes”. If an overweight 40 year male with no experience of running or jogging, then going to walking to jogging is going to spike there heart rate high.
I was on a coaching course this weekend and a star provided was 2% of the population could run a mile, I’m assuming faster than a walk without stopping, therefore we as the running community have a warped sense of what fitness and ascribed what, who and how can be done and put people into boxes.
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I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.