The immortal Steve Prefontaine. When Doug comes into town there are a few things we always have to do, go to Nike (the first one ever), go to Hayward Field (track town U.S.A.), and go to Pre's rock. Pre was one of the greatest middle distance runners during the early 70's. At one time he held all three U.S. records in the middle distances. Pre was killed while driving home drunk one night at the age of 24. He was the first paid athlete that Nike sponsored and help put them on the map. These are the pictures we took of his memorial rock. Many people like to leave personal items, such as, medals, numbers, shoes, or hats. One of the hats is from 1975. All to show their respect to the "rebel with a cause."
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Bub, when I was in 9th grade Dan Dean had a photo of PRE on the inside of this closet door. The funny thing was it looked just like his WSU Hall of Fame picture at a different angle. So For a whole year I thought Coach had a picture of himself hanging up. Not until the end of track did he tell us who PRE was. Man did I feel dumb.
Big DD did looked just like Pre back in the day. However, his lanky stride that was all legs wasn't the smooth run of the Pre. Brings back painful memories of 220repeats over hurdles with DD runing just in front of me to make me go harder. Good times indeed.
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