40 Year Feng Tay / Nike Partnership

I posted an 8-minute video on YouTube from the 40-year celebration of the Feng Tay / Nike Partnership. I think the video does a great job of showing the importance and value of the two companies working together. Feng Tay was a small factory in Taiwan in 1977 when Phil Knight and C.H. Wang signed the first Supply Agreement.

My Genetic History

I asked my mother about her maternal history.  Below is what she wrote.

These words are from my mother ...

Pictures from the 70's

I scanned 24 pictures from my running days and posted them here.

Click "Read more" to see all 24 pictures.

Nike's Hood to Coast History

[Updated June 2018] Hood to Coast started in 1982.  This is the 37th year.

Nike has entered at least one team every year since 1983.  There have probably been at least 20,000 Nike employees and affiliates from around the world who have participated over the years.  Hood to Coast Nike to its running heritage and is in our own backyard.

Tarahumara is the only Nike team to participate every one of those years and has only lost their division twice; in 1987 and 2006.  A victory this year will be 33rd time.

Nike holds almost half of the division records (7 of 16) including the overall 1995 Mambu Baddu record which converts to 4:51 per mile.

Nike also holds the longest standing division record set by Nike Team Swoosh in 1992.

About me, I've run or walked 28 times: 14 Nike Hood to Coast teams and 14 Nike Portland to Coast teams.  17 of those years I was on a team that won its division.  (can anyone beat that?)

  1985-1995:  Tarahumara, Corporate Mixed.  Won 10 of 11 years.
  1996-2001:  Limp Swooshes, Men's Masters.  I couldn't run 3 years.
  2002-2005:  T-Wrecks, Mixed Masters Walking.
  2006-2015:  T-Wrecks, Mixed Super Masters Walking.  Won 7 of  9 years.

Now some Nike HTC history.  My history-keeping fell off in recent years.

Nike's first Hood to Coast team, 1983 Tarahumara

Liverpool, England

Mary & Steve's trip to the UK

Mary and I are going to the UK.  We'll drive a loop
starting in the Glasgow, Scotland and finishing there.

AUSTIN MEEK

The Last Amateurs

The track stars of the 1970s fought to get today’s athletes paid

Kenny Moore visits Bill Bowerman's bronze at Hayward Field in 2006 (Chris Pietsch/The Register Guard)

Gerald Ford, then vice president of the United States, penned a 5,000-word essay for Sports Illustrated in 1974 outlining his views on various subjects of the day.

I'll be an Adjunct Professor, someday

Today, I officially started co-teaching a Sports Product class today with Ellen Devlin. I have some work to do before I'm officially an Adjunct Professor, but I took my next big step today to get there.

What is an Adjunct Professor?

Countries that I've visited

Click on the map above to see a more readable version.

I've been to 41 different countries.

Some of the countries no longer exist or are questionable as a country: Yugoslavia is gone, Hong Kong has reverted back as a possession of China, and China still claims Taiwan as their island.

My goal in 2015 is to visit some countries that I've never been to before. As a starter I'm thinking Hungary since I'm 50% Hungarian and my father was a first generation American.