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This was my favorite spikes, the Spider. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/b2624304-3054-4deb-8ac6-d8b988036f2d/Part1-04.6.AdidasIntervall.1972new.JPG Photo Gallery Adidas also gave me a pair of training spikes which was more protective against injury. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/af5303df-d1b3-40ef-a2cf-6b7e3d89daa2/Part1-04.7.HandmadeSpikes.1973new.JPG Photo Gallery Bowerman gave me this pair of spikes which I assumed he cobbled together himself, but later I learned that the uppers came from Japan and someone on his staff made a dozen or so pair. I wore them in competition only once. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/5d68f66f-15d4-4b09-aeb8-6375cee64dad/Part1-04.1.TheAthleticDepartment.1972a.jpg Photo Gallery Geoff Hollister in the doorway, a UO runner and early Nike employee, traded my Adidas running flats for a pair of Nike Cortez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/56c47b0d-b037-47a8-88e5-736e54dedc92/Part1-04.4.HailuCortez.1975a.jpg Photo Gallery Hailu Ebba and I after our race at Hayward Field. Hailu helped me try to qualify for the NCAA meet my senior year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/b3df669e-daab-4e14-b522-0939441726c3/Part3-11.6.SheunnYngFactory.1978new.jpg Photo Gallery At the factory in Tainan, Taiwan called Sheunn Yng. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/eee9ea3d-f68e-4c7b-93a5-cb1a87c4e356/Part1-04.9.SteveBenceBigShoe.1978new.jpg Photo Gallery Fellow Nike employee, Jim Gorman, had a son name Nate who was in the Nike poster. Sheunn Yng made that huge shoe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/6d2d0545-0669-4408-b322-68498f451f63/Part3-11.5.FeigWedding.1979new.jpg Photo Gallery Mary and I went to Korea and attended Mark Feig's wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/9ac6e994-028d-4c46-85bd-74bdbadfd9d3/Part3-12.9.MaryKindergarten.1982new.jpg Photo Gallery Mary helped at the kindergarten. The Army let them use a quanset hut as a temporary school for the local kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/af6b5c40-ddc0-400c-868a-670003024830/Part3-12.9.FrontOfKoreaOrphanage.1987new.jpg Photo Gallery On our second assignment to Korea, we took the whole family to the orphanage where we adopted Kelly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/9cce3fbc-d8ae-4e60-871e-e52f95dcb7fe/Part4-17.2.KennyBencePearson.2008new.JPG Photo Gallery Dave Pearson and I took Nike employees to Eugene and Hayward Field. On this trip, Kenny Moore spoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611189f466132901b07dc502/b3e9872c-8f55-4232-8eb7-5fa8b0063b68/Part3-14.3.Grandstands.2018new.JPG Photo Gallery Another trip to Hayward Field. 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