Can We All Just Agree to Stop Using “Jogger” as an Insult?

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Can We All Just Agree to Stop Using “Jogger” as an Insult?
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'Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a jogger. I am here to defend both the word and the deed of jogging.' —Pflax1

Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a jogger. These days, this can be a pretty courageous admission to make, a declaration to hardcore runners and the non-running public just how annoyingly clueless, virulently dangerous, and hopelessly plodding I might be.

This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. The venom toward joggers gets crueler and more lethal in the most competitive communities. Consider Letsrun.com, which historically has spoken to competitive runners. It has untold numbers of threads that discuss and insult so-called hobby joggers, a term that has since spread to broader corners of running culture. Sometimes the expression is tossed around playfully, as an impish put-down to anyone who might be a little slower than you, but typically the condescension remains quite obvious.

One of the great things about running culture, on paper at least but sometimes in real life, is its more egalitarian nature. You can actually go to the start of a big road race and see a newbie jogger lined up at the back of a huge field led by Olympians. For decades, running—as an activity, an industry, and a community—grew not despite this phenomenon but because of it. Women, who were treated like second-class citizens in many other sports, felt welcome.

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