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Air Pegasus+ 30 "Oregon Project"
2013
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The Oregon Project Pegasus let everyday runners dress like the most elite distance team in the country. The Nike Oregon Project was founded in 2001 in Beaverton to revive American distance running, and by 2013 it was the most successful program in the sport, taking medals at the World Championships. Nike turned that identity into product with this Air Pegasus+ 30, released in December 2013 for a hundred dollars, an all-black runner with covert 3M detailing spelling out Oregon Project and a skull logo that only revealed itself under light.
The Pegasus was already Nike’s workhorse trainer, an engineered mesh upper over a responsive Zoom unit, and the Oregon Project treatment gave it an insider’s cachet, a shoe that meant something to people who followed the sport closely. The story has since darkened. The team folded in 2019 after coach Alberto Salazar received a four-year doping ban, which turned the Oregon Project name from an aspiration into a cautionary tale. That history is part of what makes the shoe worth documenting. For an archive it is a clean artifact of a specific moment in American distance running, before the program’s reputation collapsed, when wearing the skull logo still meant running with the best.