Steve Prefontaine
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"1500 metres/1500 meters": 3:38.1 "Mile run/Mile": 3:54.6 "3000 metres/3000 meters": 7:42.6 "Two miles/2-mile": 8:18.29 "5000 meters": 13:21.87 "10,000 meters": 27:43.6

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"Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine" was an American Long-distance running/middle and long-distance runner who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics/1972 Olympics. Prefontaine once held the American record in seven different distance track events from the 2000 metres/2,000 meters to the 10,000 metres/10,000 meters. Prefontaine died in May 1975 at the age of 24 in an auto accident.

Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, and Bill Rodgers (athlete)/Bill Rodgers generated considerable media coverage which helped inspire the Running boom of the 1970s/1970s "running boom". Prefontaine was often known for his mustache and his long locks of hair that parted as he ran.

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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.