Walking is great. We should be encouraging and praising all kinds of exercise. I had not heard of the hot girl walk (I’m a million years old I guess) but that sounds like one of the better trends from Tik tok

Anonymous wrote:I jog five times a day, so I see a lot of the same faces. I plan my routes so I never go further than a 5K away from the house, so with my return, the total is the 10K I planned. It seems the most serious joggers are always at speed and jogging, while others are jogging and then later walking. Are the walkers just not planning their routes and/or still trying to get in shape?

Your assumption that “most serious joggers” never walk is erroneous.

embarrassed about walking? seriously? Get mental help.

Often I take a walk before or after an at-home workout. If after then I will be covered in sweat and probably look like I've been running. Either way I will be in my workout clothes. Sometimes it's part of a warm-up and other times it's part of a cool down.

It has never occurred to me that anyone would see me walking and think about it at all. I don't think I register other people in this way -- if they are running then they are running and if they are walking then they are walking and I don't see how it matters.

I don't run since a hip alignment issue that cropped up after I had a baby -- I've addressed it through PT but my running gate makes it worse and I can't seem to fix it so I just gave up on it. Turns out my knees also prefer not running!

How exactly do you determine someone to be a jogger versus a walker?
If I’m walking but in running clothes do you feel like I must have been running at some point and stopped? What if I was walking the entire time? If you must know, I had ankle surgery in the winter (much like another poster after playing soccer for 25 years, and running constantly) so I haven’t been running anywhere recently but I’m dressed in running shorts and a tech tee.

As others have said here, there’s a lot of judgment for your concern about other people not impacting you at all.

Maybe they are walkers?

For me, it's:

- because it's effing hot, and I need to take breaks
- I'm recovering from an injury and am trying to moderate myself by doing intervals
- maybe I overdid it, and am trying to listen to my body and just walk now
- trying to increase my endurance and distance by adding in intervals

Walking is trendier now than running for the hot young people. They wear their booty shorts and brand new sneakers and just...walk for an hour.

Anonymous wrote:Intervals are a thing. I feel better pushing it for a while and then backing off and walking rather than a monotonous pace.

I’m a treadmill in the basement person except for occasional really nice days, but I used to just run and now I always do intervals of fast walking and then running and back to walking.

Anonymous wrote:If you saw me walking it’s because I’m hopelessly out of shape. I want to get back in shape, hence I go out for an aspirational run of a couple miles of which I will actually run maybe one over the total loop with many breaks for walking. I feel like I’m really doing something to get back in shape doing that. If I only went as far as I could actually run continuously, I’d make it around the block at best.

+1

54 and after years of marathons in my youth and soccer player for 20 years—piriformis tendinitis and nothing left between my discs in spine from years of 6 days a week running 90 minutes or mores means I can’t really run much now…so I add in walking when the pain during run acts up. I’m walking more and more now.

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Anonymous wrote:*"and I don't care about how I look doing it because it's not about that. It's about doing the thing."

Also a dumb take. My "jog" is probably your flat out pace. Why are you so intent on judging people on how much they are "pushing themselves"?

There is also polarized training to consider. So we have that.

Someone who runs as much as they can and then stops is never going to be doing as much as if they did that PLUS then walked.

I don't care about your "jog" pace. Do whatever you want. It's not about you.

But OP is absolutely admitting she is not pushing herself as hard as she could WHILE looking down on others for doing what she thinks is less. That's not about you -- it's about her. It's a poor showing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*"and I don't care about how I look doing it because it's not about that. It's about doing the thing."

Also a dumb take. My "jog" is probably your flat out pace. Why are you so intent on judging people on how much they are "pushing themselves"?

There is also polarized training to consider. So we have that.

Right. Dream on.

Anonymous wrote:Jeff Galloway's program is popular --

https://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/run-walk/

This. The program they follow incorporates both.

Long term runner. I do interval runs and if I do all out paces, I walk in between (which my running coach suggests doing).