I still go to the track almost every day and do my workout of a half-mile warm-up followed by somewhere between one mile and one and one-half miles of running. On days when I run less one and one-half miles I typically run some 220s.
What I was pondering recently was whether when I run at slower than a 8:00/mile pace I was running or jogging? Back in my SUNY-B days we defined jogging as anything that was slower than 8:00/mile. My question is that an absolute definition or does that definition change depending on the age of the athlete?
I’m not the first person to pose this question:
http://home.sprynet.com/~holtrun/jog.htm
What do you think?
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I certainly agree that it is a relative term, and changes with age. If 8 mins/mile is the threshold defining jogging, then most of my training runs are "jogs" and I must be, by definition, a "jogger," although I ran a 5:20 mile this summer, and just placed 3rd out of 81 in a 10K trail race.
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