It's hard to keep track of all the different Nike clubs and what they offer to the athletes. Can someone give me a summary? Nike, Nike Bowerman, Nike Oregon Project, OTC, etc.
It's hard to keep track of all the different Nike clubs and what they offer to the athletes. Can someone give me a summary? Nike, Nike Bowerman, Nike Oregon Project, OTC, etc.
The big differences are where they are located and who coaches them:
NOP & Bowerman are in Portland, OTC is in Eugene.
Salazar coaches NOP/OP
Schumacher coaches Bowerman
Rowland coaches OTC Elite.
Their history is complicated. It will be far a lot easier for you to look that up yourself.
Gags, who was at OTC, now coaches the NY/NJ Track Club. I'm not sure if it's officially a Nike group or not.
To complicate matters, some runners, are like Phoebe Wright, who runs for Nike, but trains with the (Brooks) beasts.
See, you were right. It is confusing!
The one that confuses me is BTC. I think anyone can join that one, but they also sponsor elites?
For example, pro steepler C.Q. just signed with BTC, but at your local 5k there will be very slow (by elite standards) BTC members.
Kyle Merber and Mike Rutt were recently (still are?) part of NY/NJ TC and they're both sponsored by Hoka, so I don't think NY/NJ TC is a Nike-specific group.
NOP is the one that dopes.
I think the difference is
Schumacher and Salazar's groups are financed by Nike.
Other running clubs are sponsored by Nike.
Salazar coaches NOP and owns OP
It was more confusing a few years ago when The Oregon Project, Oregon Track Club, and Bowerman Track club were all running in Oregon Track Club singlets
Bowerman Track Club (Portland) and Oregon Track Club (Eugene) both have community running clubs, in addition to their elite teams.
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