Primal Quest
reporting presented by Inov-8

Ken Meyer of team Nike ACG/GORE-TEX told me that before Primal Quest Montana, he'd never used duct tape on his feet. Much to his surprise, he's had to use it for most of this race.

In this shot, support crewman Beau Johnson applies the miracle tape to Ken's left foot. So shiny and smooth, it kinda looks like a foot from the comic book character in that Silver Surfer movie that came out a while back.

Beau said, rather flatly, that Ken has Tenosynovitis, which is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath that surrounds a tendon. Nah, don't be impressed. I had to look it up. Beau used a lot of big words while I was watching him tape up Ken's feet. Thank goodness for online dictionaries and encyclopedias.

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John Hlavacs, a Portland, Ore.,-based photographer following team Nike/GORE-TEX, decided to go for a run this afternoon while waiting for the team to arrive at Transition Area 4. It was a gorgeous afternoon for a run in Big Sky Country. John works for Nike in Beaverton, Ore. I asked him if Nike makes any shoes for a heavy-set, beginning trail runner like me. He said yes, and I'm going to learn all about it when we're both back home in Portland in July.

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