About JogMom

Running as a parent means fitting training into the gaps: a stroller loop before the school run, a few laps while a toddler naps, a slow rebuild after a baby. And it comes with a scatter of half-answered questions. What pace did that squeezed-in run actually work out to? How many calories did it burn? If you can run a 5K in this time, what could you manage over 10K? How do you get from not running at all to a continuous 5K without getting hurt? How much does pushing a stroller slow you down? And how do you structure a run/walk session so it fits the time you have? None of these are hard on their own, but working them out by hand, every time, is where a simple run turns into homework.

JogMom exists to take that arithmetic off your plate. Instead of long articles you have to read end to end, the site is built around a set of small, single-purpose calculators, each aimed at one part of running through motherhood. The Running Pace Calculator turns a distance and a time into your pace per kilometre and per mile, plus your speed. The Running Calorie Calculator estimates energy burned from your weight, distance, and pace using the standard MET method, with a small terrain adjustment. The Race Time Predictoruses Riegel’s formula to project a finish time at one distance from a recent result at another. The Couch to 5K Planner lays out the classic nine-week run/walk progression and lets you start where your current fitness sits. The Stroller Pace Adjuster estimates how much a running stroller slows you down based on the combined stroller-and-child weight. And the Run/Walk Interval Calculator breaks a Galloway-style session into intervals and shows your total run and walk time.

Beyond the calculators, the blog and learnsection cover pacing and training, running with a stroller, returning to running after a baby, and family 5Ks in more depth, and the site’s museum is a separate, browsable collection you can wander through for a change of pace, with every entry, image, and fact drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

A few things worth stating plainly. JogMom is an independent site, not a coaching service and not affiliated with any race, brand, or fitness authority. It is supported by advertising, which is how the tools stay free with no account required. Every result the tools produce — a pace, a calorie estimate, a predicted time, a training week, a stroller adjustment, an interval breakdown — is a general estimate or heuristic built on the numbers you enter and on common running conventions, not medical or professional fitness advice. Postpartum running deserves particular care: get medical clearance from your doctor or a pelvic-health professional before returning to running, and stop if something hurts. If something looks off in a tool or an article, or you think a calculator is missing that would help, the contact page is the place to say so.