Since many folks take statements on the Net to be gospel, I feel obligated to correct your comment on the origin of the verb "wog". The Old Prof did not coin the term, whether or not he knew of any previous use of the word to indicate rapid walks without competitive intent.I first heard the term in 1979 from fellow avid-runner-turned-race-walker Neal Picken, aka T. Grimm Reaper. Neal framed, on a mat, a stick of the sort that could reasonably be used for recreational walking and presented it to Dean Ingram, chair at the men's Race Walking Committee meetings, in the Amateur Athletic Union's annual meetings. Neal referred to it as a "wogging stick" in recognition of Dean's claims that he, a 55-minute 10-kilometer race walker, didn't represent himself to be a talented athlete. Neal indicated to me that he felt the term "wogging" was in wide use to indicate noncompetitive walkers. Remember that the word "jogging" came into common conversational use only a few years earlier.