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Post by rgeorge on Feb 3, 2022 9:42:49 GMT -8
As far as Nike is concerned, I've known folks that were very high on the food chain. They have said Nike often publicly drops support, but not so much behind closed doors. Many of these athletes have damaging insider info on Nike practices that could be "leaked" CDA or NDA be damned.
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Post by irimi on Feb 3, 2022 9:52:51 GMT -8
Cool stories here! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Feb 3, 2022 12:51:35 GMT -8
He ran Scandia one year when I also did the race. He came gliding in while I was chugging out on the out-and-back portion of the course between miles 4-5. I think he finished 28 minutes or something. He could really run. I don't ever remember seeing him run in person. Forty years ago, Lookingglass, a rural area near Roseburg, had an approximate 5-mile road race. They called it the around the block race. One of Salazar's training partners, Jeff Wells, showed up the one time I ran it. A few years earlier Wells missed winning the Boston Marathon by two seconds. He had these old worn out brown sweats but right before the gun went off, he dumped them and was in the Athletics West singlet. I was pretty fit and fast at that time. I had ran under 33 minutes for a 10K a couple months before. But the difference between a good local runner and a world class athlete is stratospheric. The first turn on that run is 3/4 miles into the course and I may have been within 200m of him at that point. Never saw him again until after the race. One year a bunch of Athletics West runners showed up at one of the old Heart of the Valley road races that used to start at Crescent Valley. They were an impressive group. Cascade Run Off used to attract a spectacular field, and The Race and Butte to Butte in Eugene had impressive fields, back when Eugene was the center of American distance running. |
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