My last official duty as the Nike Field Reporter was to host the opening of the Nike Store in Eugene, Oregon. Eugene is the birthplace of Nike, so what better place to have the birth of its newest store!

The first day I greeted new customers to the store and interviewed Adam and Kara Goucher, who have both made big names for themselves in the running world. They came down to Eugene with their coach and running legend Alberto Salazar. I talked to the three of them about their ...

I thought completing a marathon was a major accomplishment. The 2,463 athletes that awoke long before sunrise on a Sunday this month believed otherwise. These athletes were about to embark on one of the hardest endurance events in the world - the Ironman, consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.2 mile run. After the starting horn, the almost 2,500 athlete...

Not a lot of people can say that they traveled the world surfing the biggest and baddest waves. Even fewer can say that they did it while they were in high school; but Monyca Byrne-Wickey can!

I met up with Monyca at an event in Huntington Beach California. Nike had set up a booth just for Monyca where she could meet with fans, sign autographs and even compete in a Hula Wii competition. The top five Hula girls got on stage where Monyca taught them some traditional Haw...

After a day of sightseeing with my mom, I arrived at the Baths of Caracalla to see how the sign-ups for the Nike+ Human Race 10k were going. When I got there, Jacopo La Maida, my partner in crime from Nike in Italy, informed me that Carl Lewis was doing a press conference in the next ten minutes! Fortunately, my backstage pass allowed me to attend the press conferenc...

As a runner, I used to consider most races to be fairly homogeneous. At high school meets, most runners had similar abilities and ran similar times with similar strides. In the Summer Games, the races consist of elite runners who posted similar times, despite their incredibly diverse backgrounds.

Some races attract runners of all ages, abilities and backg...

We pulled into the parking lot just in time to watch an army of red shirts march away from the Finish Line store. After registering and getting our red shirts (which impressively listed all the international cities where the race would be run), my family and I ran a few laps around the parking lot Orlando's picturesque Millennia Mall searching for the starting line. F...

Epic. That's really the only word that comes to my mind when I think of August 31st, 2008. This was one of the coolest experiences I have ever had. I ran in the Nike+ Human Race 10K in Chicago, which just so happened to be the largest one in the USA. Knowing I was running with almost 14,000 people in my city alone was huge, but knowing I was one of the hundreds of...

Many Backrounds. One Common Race.

Wow! Unbelievable! Fun! Fantastic! These words were used to describe the Nike+ Human Race on August 31st all over the world, but specifically in Indianapolis, Indiana. Today, I joined about 30 eager runners at the Running Company in Broad Ripple to run the amazing 10k. The runners seemed most impressed with the fact that ...