Difference between a jog and a run?

[JohnnyCash]

What is the difference between a jog and a run (besides the fact that a run is faster)?

I'm going to be doing that "Couch to 5K in 9 weeks" (which I heard is excellent) program and wanted to know how fast I should be "jogging". How fast is a jog? A run?

[MechMan]

I believe the defenition of jog is just a slow run. In other words, it just depends on the effort you put into it.

[biggesto]

I had it explained to me that while jogging, you should be able to carry on a conversation with a partner. During a run, you'll be too out of breath to talk. You can also go by heart rate... jogging on the low end of the cardiovascular scale and running on the higher end of getting your heart rate up.

[DelC]

Originally posted by biggesto
. . . During a run, you'll be too out of breath to talk. . . . Only if you're out of shape!

From my experience, the main difference with jogging and running is the length of your stride. Jogging requires short choppy steps at a slower pace, whereas running requires a long stride. To separate fast walking from jogging or running; while walking both feet will be in contact with the ground at the same time, whereas in jogging or running they won't be.

[Sipowicz]

Originally posted by biggesto
. . . During a run, you'll be too out of breath to talk. . . .

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DelC
Only if you're out of shape!

If you are looking for scientific proof of that, I am. I start running and it doesn't take too long until I am looking for the oxygen tank . . . . . .:mad:

[LongArm]

Originally posted by biggesto
I had it explained to me that while jogging, you should be able to carry on a conversation with a partner. During a run, you'll be too out of breath to talk.

I've heard it explained almost the same way--during a jog, you can carry on a friendly conversation, without having to pause to catch your breath between sentences. For a run, you can only speak in short, choppy sentences (an example was saying the Pledge of Allegiance)

LongArm

[Signal9TN]

Running is at the start of a foot pursuit when you are close behind the badguy

Jogging is when you see him round the corner one block ahead and start to figure out what your excuse is going to be...

[Cowboy Jones]

anything more is jogging

[Sandles2Sidearm]

It was explained to me as jogging is up and down, running is forward motion. A jogger dumps his energy by bouncing his/her way down the street. A runner uses his/her energy to propel him/herself down their path.




PS

if anything over 7min/mile is jogging....I may be a jogger for life....:rolleyes:

[MechMan]

Originally posted by Cowboy Jones
anything more is jogging

For you maybe.

It is an issue of intensity. There is no way you can put a time limit on it. My little girl is just starting to walk and run a bit, with the assistance of someone. There is no way she can do a 7:00 minute mile, but she definitely is running.

MM

[mikemac64]

I am a jogger...All of the people passing me are runners!!!!

[JonathanE]

"I've heard it explained almost the same way--during a jog, you can carry on a friendly conversation, without having to pause to catch your breath between sentences. For a run, you can only speak in short, choppy sentences (an example was saying the Pledge of Allegiance)"

Now I was never in the military, however when I was in a police academy we used to go for three to five mile runs, jogs whatever you want to call them. Now we ran in formation (not in unison) and some of the military guys would call out cadience while we ran (Someone must have had a really bad ass Grandmother with all of the kick ass stuff we sang about.) and someone told me part of cadience was so that you were not running to hard.

Now we would do five miles in around 45 min's, which to me was a pretty decent pace.

So were those jog's or runs?

(As much as I hated those jogs/runs, I really miss the physical shape that I was in during the Academy.)

[spb10059]

I would call a formation run at 9 mins/mile a jog.