For beginners, jogging is best described as a conversational pace: a pace where you can easily carry on a conversation with a fellow jogger. For some of you, this will be 12 minutes per mile or less. For others, it may be 15 minutes per mile or more. The actual pace doesn't matter -- what matters is that it should be comfortable for you.
As your running progresses, so will your pace. What began as an easy jog will become an easy run, but for training runs your start
should still be an easy jog to warm up. (There is no clear difference
between running and jogging, but runners generally prefer to say they
are "running" rather than "jogging".)
If you need a definition of the difference, the accepted terminology is that anything slower than 12 minutes per mile
is jogging. Since that makes me a jogger these days, I prefer to use
the perceived effort terminology where a conversational pace is jogging
and anything faster is running.
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