These boots are made for walkin ....

You gotta learn to walk before you can run. Running addict is also race walking these days. But there’s a big difference between running and race-walking. You can run any darned way you like. Run like a turkey or a horse; nobody will complain. Laugh – yes: complain, no.

Race walking is another matter. There are some rules. You can’t walk any old way you like – especially if that so-called walk amounts to a run.

Now if you’re in a walk race and someone behind is breaking the rules – who cares? But when the guy ahead has lost control and broke into what amounts to a run – that my friends is entirely another matter!

You are in a running race and the person ahead breaks into a walk. Your response – joy!

You are in a walk race and the person ahead breaks into a run. Your response – resignation? Only if you are a not a competitive sort! My response is fury.

It is like the trots when the horse breaks into a gallop. So ya gotta have judges.