Jogging... Not. (Read 2593 times)

It's all in your head. I don't consider myself a jogger but someone who passes me on the road doing two minutes per mile faster than me may believe he (or she) may have passed "a jogger". I don't care. I'm not doing this to impress anyone else. I'm doing it because I have to. If I don't, my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being will suffer greatly. To those who run a lot farther and faster than me, I say great. TC

You know, if I say it this way, I think you're going to argue and say that you didn't mean it that way.  Your "tone" almost seems to carry that there's something wrong with being fast (or faster).  It seems to me that you just have some chips on your shoulder.

Two of my dear friends, Arthur Lydiard and Bill Bowerman, wrote some of the first ever books written on jogging.  Bill's son just sent me a copy of very first red booklet simply called "JOGGING".  I think it's so cool; it's a piece of history; it was the beginning of the era when people got outside, not on a confined track and said; "I don't care if I'm not a college competitor.  I wanna get out and RUN!"  I say; let's make some T-shirts that reads; "I'm jogging and am proud of it!"

I remember, way back I think it must have been like 1985; I was back in Japan and my city had a New Year's 8km road race.  I was warming up by "jogging" and I came across this young lady (but I was younger so she was actually older than me).  I said hi and asked if it's okay if I "jog" with her.  We jogged and chatted and had a good time.  The race started and I actually won that race.  At the award ceremony, there I was, brought out to the front, onto the podium and received a nice cup as a matter of fact.  She said that and freaked out.  I spotted her so I asked her to go for cool-down by "jogging".  She insisted she's not worthy!  So I literally grabbed her arm and dragged her out and jogged together to cool down.  Hey, I (once) was fast.  She was slow; but who the hell cares?

Nobby (who has forgotten more about running that I have ever known) didn't mention that in Lydiard training (and the program that Nobby and his partners designed for all of us weekend wariors)  they have an entire run category for Friday runs called "JOG"....    The jog in Nobby's Lydiard plan is a shorter distance at a slower pace than normal....

I think of a 'JOG' as a super recovery or warmup up run (when I say super, I mean super easy)........

Nobby (who has forgotten more about running that I have ever known)

Nobby has fogotton nothing about running.

"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." 

"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." 

No membership card...damn!  Can we at least get together and come up with a secret handshake or something?

Jogging ...running ... its all good 

 

 

 

what a cool avitar

I was thinking, creepy.