Jogging and Running: What is the difference?

Posted on Jun 16, 2009 in City2Surf, Lifting Your Game | 2 comments

Less than 8 weeks to go and I’ve just done my Tuesday morning 8km jog that is on my City2Surf training plan (which you can download as a Google Calendar here).

This is the last week of the warm up period of my training plan. If you have been following along with my routine, you should be starting to feel pretty conditioned to getting out and doing your regular morning activity.

of the things you’ll notice about my training plan is that I refer to some activities as a jog and others as a run. There is a very important difference. Running takes more effort that jogging.

Someone asked me this week how to tell if they were running or jogging.

The answer is quite simple: When you are running, you lift your heels up fairly high behind you, this in turn helps you to take longer and faster strides. When you are jogging, your heels do not lift particularly high and you tend to move along without bending the knees very much.

Jogging can also be more jarring on the body than running as you tend to have a straighter leg and the momentum of your body is more up and down rather than forward with a rolling rhythm.

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City2Surf Training Plan – Lifting Your Game – Overview

• City2Surf Training Plan Stage One
• City2Surf training plan ‘“ Stage Two
• City2Surf training plan ‘“ Stage Three

• Week 11 – Introduction to a routine (Rest Day) (First gym day)
• Week 10 – Start off Nice and Easy
• Week 9 – Continue at an easy pace
• Week 8 -  Noticing changes in yourself
  Jogging and Running : what’s the difference?
• Week 7 – Step it up a notch
  Calculating your Ideal Training Level
• Week 6 – Focus on Breathing
• Week 5 – Arm Power
• Week 4 – High Effort
• Week 3 – Steady as She Goes
• Week 2 – Focus on Endurance
• Week 1 – How to Cut minutes of your City2Surf time with 24 Hours to go
• City to Surf 2009 – We are off

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