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Linfield, Oregon track coach’s company takes to deep-water training

Garry Killgore is very familiar with the story of Bill Bowerman, the Oregon track coach who designed Nike’s prototype athletic shoe.

His admiration for the iconic coach was evident on a recent Tuesday during a workout at the Linfield College pool, where his copy of "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon" sat on a counter nearby. He had loaned it out and had just gotten it back.

"I would never pretend to be Bowerman, and I would never want to be," said Killgore, who coached track and cross-country at the McMinnville college.

But he has — somewhat reluctantly — become Oregon’s latest coach-cum-businessman.

His company, AQx Sports http://www.aqxsports.com/ , sells suits and shoes for deep-water running. It’s exactly what it sounds like — running while bobbing in the water, which provides resistance without the impact of running on land.

The products are growing in popularity among athletic elites — golfer Tiger Woods and quarterback Peyton Manning have tried them out — but some of his biggest fans join him at the pool every Tuesday and Thursday. Killgore calls it his "breakfast club."

Elliot Njus, The Oregonian

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/07/linfield_track_coachs_company.html

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