Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Why Jogging is Better than Running
Pearl Izumi has an ad campaign entitled "We are not joggers". One of the lines from the campaign is "Runners are wild. Joggers are runners who have been domesticated." I always bristled when people called me a jogger, or asked if I'd gone for a jog today. No, I'm a runner! But in the chapter of Running and Philosophy, "In Praise of the Jogger", Ray VanArragon, a former college runner and current philosopher at Bethel University, argues that we runners should aspire to be joggers, in part because the motivations and goals of the jogger are better. I found myself being convinced, and echoing his hope to one day become a jogger. I wonder if pride had more to do with not wanting to be called a jogger, or was it simply that I didn't understand what a jogger truly is?
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Yes - I have seen the ads (and read the piece in the book) - and must admit that the adverts really annoyed me.
The book piece - I kind of liked, and can see the appeal of the approach. The ads are, I guess, a marketing response to the 'run easy' ads by other brands - but the implication that 'the soul of running' is jeopardized by 'jogging' is just plain silly...
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