# Jogging vs. Walking **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 5, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994 "2003-02-05T17:26:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994/41 "2003-02-06T20:02:03Z")
In COnceivable: NOW do you realize why i didn’t post a site? ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994/42 "2003-02-06T22:25:44Z")
Huh? You were wrong. It isn’t a complex idea. I asked for a site proving that 100 calories extra per mile is incorrect. We are talking about extra calories burned per distanced traveled and you keep throwing in resting metabolism and time. BTW, I am a she. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994/43 "2003-02-07T00:12:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fuel \* > \*\*In COnceivable: NOW do you realize why i didn’t post a site? \*\* I don’t ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994/44 "2003-02-08T06:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by In Conceivable \* > \*\*Walking one mile burns about as many calories as running for one mile. \*\* you didn’t say anything about EXTRA calories in this post of yours… whoops on your part. also, the original poster didn’t say anything about EXTRA cals either. whoops on your part. listen lady, i posted facts. either understand them or… understand them. not counting time waiting at finish line for walking partner (because this is a DISTANCE question), the runner will burn FAR less calories than the walker in same distance. \*resting metabolism = the idle that killed the creeping cars’ gas mileage. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994/45 "2003-02-08T14:07:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > I don’t Well, obviously, that’s your problem. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994/46 "2003-06-18T01:27:08Z")
I bring this up after a long hiatus because I found the definitive answer to the OP in the U. of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter, July 2003. It has a website, but this article is not on the web: > [@](#): > > This belief [that walking burns as many calories as running for the same distance] is widespread… But it is not true. It’s not just that it takes more energy to move at a higher speed, but running also requires more strenuous arm, leg, and upper-body movement, all of which burn extra calories. And to achieve the longer stride of running, you have to repeatedly lift your body weight off the ground so that both feet are in the air at the same time. When you walk, at least one foot is always on the ground. A standard reference guide to energy expenditures shows that for a 132-pound person, walking 3 miles per hour burns 70 calories per mile (in 20 minutes), but running 6 miles per hour burns 100 calories per mile (in 10 minutes). Race-walking, with its hip-swiveling, arm-pumping motion, also burns more calories per mile than regular walking. Brisk walking is still a great way to burn calories, and many people prefer it to running. But if you want to burn as many calories as you would running, you just have to walk a bit farther. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jogging-vs-walking/152994.md?page=2)