Just Your Average Joggler

Joggling Strategy for Getting an Edge in a Sprint Race

As you may know, I’m participating in the IJA World Joggling Championships in Lexington, Kentucky two weeks from now. These races will be different than the normal 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and full Marathon distances that I usually do. There will be sprint races of distances like 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, etc. instead. Well, [...]

Unicycle Race Covers 500+ Miles

This is just amazing. Ride the Lobster is a unicycle race in Nova Scotia Canada that was done in 5 stages covering 800km (or just about 500 miles). The winners finished in 36:17:47 which pencils out to a pace of about 4:20 per mile pace. That’s crazy!! How many bike riders out there [...]

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More Evidence You Can Think Your Way To Fitness

This story published in the Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research demonstrates that you can improve your fitness just by thinking about the right things. Researchers had students think about either the “reasons” they wanted to become more fit or the “actions” they could take to become more fit. For 8 weeks they had subjects write [...]

Great 3-ball Juggling

I used to think I could do every 3-ball trick there was, but this guy shows just how mistaken I was. Clearly, I have a problem of a lack of creativity and inspiration. I get bored because I couldn’t come up with new 3-ball tricks to challenge me. Tim Kelly just gave me [...]

Joggling Vacation Destination

Is joggling really getting so popular that resorts are now featuring special paths just for jogglers? Well, according to this travel blog the Caliente Caribe in Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic) has “extensive walking/joggling nature paths.” I can’t wait to go and see whether they are really joggling paths or an unfortunate typo.

10 Question American Sport and Exercise Quiz

There was an interesting article that gave all the statistics about the exercise habits of people in the United States. Let’s see how well you do. Question 1: Which area of the United States are you most likely to find someone exercising on any given day? A. Pacific B. Mountain C. West North Central D. [...]

Joggling is Your Talent

This is part of a series of posts answering the oft asked question, “Why Do You Joggle?” Everyone in this world has their own special set of talents. They are inside you just waiting to come out. Waiting for you to discover them. Unfortunately, your talents are like the red suit in the Greatest American [...]

How To Find A Joggling Path Near You

The other day, I was scheduled to do a joggling speed workout. It was supposed to feature two 1600 meter runs at a 6:30/mile pace with an 800m easy run in between. In my pre-retired days, it would’ve been easy enough to just get on the treadmill and do the distances there. But I [...]

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Joggling Skills 101 - How to Spit While Running

In the recent story about sweating while joggling, Flurpy pointed out that joggling has made it much harder for him to spit while running. He says Before joggling, I also spat (I’m a smoker), but with joggling, it is too hard to get the timing right. - maybe If I can do a decent 5-ball, I’ll [...]

Notes From Around the Joggling World

Here are just a few quick updates of things going on in the joggling world. More evidence that the sport is gaining in popularity. We may see a day when joggling gets officially added as an Olympic sport. + Julian Tam reports that he joggled the Bay and Back 5K race in Hamilton, Canada. [...]