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Sweat Equity
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Sweat Equity

by Jason Kelly
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
7h
English
Bloomberg Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 11 The Man Makes the Shoe

Merhawi Keflezighi was apprehensive as he walked out of the Fairmont Copley Hotel on April 21, 2014, toward the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The lead runners were in the final few miles of the race and officials, following their standard practice, brought the family and representatives of those runners to watch the end of the race.

Keflezighi, who goes by “Hawi,” fits both categories. His brother, Meb, was also his star client—and he was winning.

At the same time, Rick Higgins stood among his colleagues at Skechers' headquarters in Manhattan Beach, California, before normal business hours and spoke with his boss, Skechers' founder and CEO Robert Greenberg. Higgins put Greenberg on speakerphone.

Greenberg ...

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