Memories of Steve Prefontaine

I took a group to Pre's Rock the day before the 2013 Prefontaine Classic.  Rhoda Krause, a reporter for KMTR at the time, had a camera and asked to do a quick interview.  The story aired that evening and Rhoda wrote the following article.

1974: Europe Competition

An Oregon workout.  Left to Right ..
Steve Prefontaine, Knut Kvalheim,
Steve Bence,  Mark Feig, Lars Kaupang

In 2001 I was asked to share my 1974 amateur racing experience in Europe.  This past week I was asked again.

I have a lot of content from that summer of 1974.  Pictures.  Diary.  News articles.

I'll see if I can organize what I have and present it in an interesting way.  It was a great adventure.

First, some context.

Pre's Rock: The Story of the Accident

Pre's overturned car.  May 30, 1975.

I went to Eugene today with Nike's Product Costing team.  Our last stop was Pre's Rock where I tell the story of Pre's death.

As I was speaking, a man who was cleaning the shrubbery along Skyline stopped his work, leaned against his rake, and listened.  As I lead up to the point of the actual accident he raised his hand.  I stopped and asked if he had a question.

He asked me, "Do you want to know what really happened?" .......

Feb 6: Geoff Hollister passes

Left picture:  Me "modeling" the Cortez
Right picture clockwise:  Geoff Hollister, John Woodman,
Tinker Hatfield, Steve Bence, Bill Dellinger

Rembering Geoff Hollister

For me, Geoff has always embodied the Nike passion for sport. Serve the athlete. Product excellence.

Feb 3: Geoff Hollister's Birthday

The Oregon Track team and OTC elite team dedicate their February 3rd workout to Geoff Hollister.

Blog by Paul Merca

RICHMOND, British Columbia--While preparing my notes to announce Saturday's Harry Jerome Indoor track meet at the Richmond Olympic Oval, I saw several tweets and Facebook posts noting that February 3rd is Geoff Hollister's birthday.

Ellen Devlin: We Grew Wings

We Grew Wings teaser

Ellen emailed: "Today's Oregonian / OregonLive linked our teaser and website"

The full OregonLive article is copy-pasted below:

Kara Goucher: Change is Hard

Kara Goucher made a difficult change last fall after the 2011 World Championships.  More on that below.

But first, Oregon-based training partners Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan just finished 1st and 3rd in the Olympic Trials to make the 2012 US Olympic marathon team.

Our 2012 Olympians:

Women: 1-Shalane Flanagan 2-Desi Davila (Arizona St) 3-Kara Goucher (Col)

Men:  1-Meb Keflezighi (UCLA) 2-Ryan Hall (Stanford) 3-Abdi Abdirahman (Arizona)

Back to Kara.

Bob Welch: Get ready for a year to remember

Bob Welch, a Eugene Register Guard columnist, wrote about the upcoming year. Included was mention of Bill Bowerman and the upcoming Olympic Trials.

Here is a portion of Bob's article ...

Tinker Hatfield: His Proudest Achievement

Dwight Jaynes interviewed Tinker Hatfield on his 30 minute sports television show.

Dwight covered all of Tinker's great accomplishments and then asked Tinker what he was most proud about.

I was surprised by his answer. (hint: it is about the people)