The Weakly: Jogging, yoga, Olympic Trials, and a running novelist

Why does 'jogging' achieve such a visceral reaction? That's this week's Big Question. How fun! Also: how yoga makes you fast enough to reach the Olympic Trials, and more about running and creativity.

BIG Q: What is jogging?

I was talking about “going for a jog” the other day, and a fellow run club person overheard me and chided me with a, “We don’t jog. We run.”

When we talk about running purposefully slowly these days, we talk with intention about Zone 2 training runs because science is good, and we talk about Long Slow Distance runs to allude to the…