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This is especially curious considering the lineage of the language. I came to understand that mainstream running culture felt these words were pejorative-insulting even. A decade ago I was an editor at Runner’s World and I learned quickly that the brand had a rarely mentioned rule not to publish the words jog, jogger, and jogging.
The most paradoxical part of the hate against joggers is how it arose from within the running community. Still, the free-for-all against jogging is just a new flare-up of a decades-old hatred. Even those who do not run seem to understand the implied insult in using the word jogger, the way it connotes an obvious incompetence. A photo of a sign in New York City’s Greenwich Village proclaiming “Selfish joggers without masks be warned-we value the lives of our elderly neighbors and will throw stuff at you from our windows!!!” went viral. Social media is overflowing with posts, from those who jog and those who hate them, documenting how widely joggers are being labeled as narcissistic idiot menaces. To glimpse how deeply this toxicity has been normalized, consider the way comedian Seth Meyers-not just a fellow runner, but a marathoner-recently lit into joggers as gasping morons who are “crop dusting us with Corona,” pulling out hall of fame tropes like roasting folks who trot in place at traffic lights. But however harmless their intentions might be, the foot soldiers of this new jogging boom have sprinted past "hipster" cyclists to become the most hated and allegedly entitled fitness enthusiasts on the planet. Millions of homebound city-dwellers and suburban denizens, cut off from gyms or their normal exercise routines, have laced up and taken to the streets to partake in an elegantly back-to-basics workout. The juvenile contempt of people who jog has escalated from an unspoken prejudice within the running community to a nationwide Defcon 1 atrocity during the COVID-19 crisis.