Published on: 14 Dec 04:01

Embarrassing name clash sidestepped: on Sunday morning, the Wellington Marathon Clinic had its AGM, and among other decisions, we decided to rename ourselves to the "Wellington Runners and Walkers": for turns out "marathon clinic" gave potential newbies the totally reasonable but mistaken impression that to join, one must already be marathon-fit. Nah. That's the end goal, not the starting requirement.

But it wasn't until yesterday that it occurred to me if there already exists a club called "Wellington Runners and Walkers". A flurry of googling claims no such club exists, whew, but geez. What if there had been? I doubt such a club would be pleased to discover we were muscling in on their turf.

On an unrelated note, I have decided it'd be both pragmatic and hilarious for the Wellington Runners and Walkers to rename itself a second time to "Ivy".