NOPology Needed

Above is the link/url to a an email I sent to my friends at 1609 podcast

Dear 1609 – http://1609pod.libsyn.com/s3e7-we-have-a-guest-ft-jeremy-ardanuy

Listen to the pod and take in a really nice interview with Jeremy, from 4:45 to 2:27 marathon in 2 years!


Ken Goe needs to eat some crow!I don’t know what Nike pays Oregonian sports writer/propagandist Ken Goe, or if he gets personalized androgel massages from Alberto himself, but he has been a shill for Nike and the Nike Oregon Project for years.In 2016 or 2017 he wrote in the Oregonian that the investigation was “ongoing” for more than a year but no decision. i.e., lalalala,we’re hearing crickets here in Niketown.
Goe did report on the ruling from the USADA investigation and arbitration over this past month, indicating the Salazar ban but with the general undertone that these are but small infractions, like Al Capone getting sent to prison for tax evasion, not for being a gangster.
Well, we can slant this another way using the same analogy. Capone was a gangster and a thug who did lots of bad gangsterish and thuggy things. Well, Alberto’s actions are very likely the tip of the iceberg of what went on with NOP. In particular, the androgel experiments on his sons to test how much lotion it would take for Galen to be sabotaged. What? Sounds like spin and doublespeak.
The latest straw, is that NOP is being rebranded under assistant coach Pete Julian with half of the same athletes. They did not waste any time on that. But there is a shadow over Beaverton and it’s likely to stay until they really clean house.


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Author: rrunnin234

I am a long time runner and coach and I'm here to write about it. I have blogged some before (years ago), but that site is now archived. My plan is to write some personal reflections skipping around the 40+ years of my running career, probably some race reports. However, I'd like to spend a fair amount discussing current events in the world of running, and likely dishing out on some coaching and training advice. I have some opinions--okay a lot--and like to share those. rws_58@yahoo.com Here are my obligatory PRs, all set way back in the 1980s and 1990s: 3K - 8:54 5K - 15:34 8K - 25:35 10K - 32:11 15K - 49:41 1/2 marathon - 1:13 marathon - 2:34 Now I'm a senior, yes a Senior (60+)! age group runner and here are my 60 and up PBs over the past couple of years: 1 mile road race - 5:15 (former American road record) 5K - 17:28 (USATF masters champion) 8K - 28:12 (USATF masters champion) 15K - 54:43 (Gasparilla 15K) 1/2 marathon - 1:17:49 (World Masters Champion)

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