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Dirt track and scrappy shoes I remember that

Steve was wearing his Marshfield colors, correct?

Lindgren could have run a couple seconds faster if he wasn’t wearing a diaper

To all you posting. You are all runners. Please listen to this. I ran competitively in high schoal(sic) and college (mile and cross country) I had high cholesteral. My docter signed me up for a Calcium Arterial test.( this is a fairly new new test, as it is not covered by insurance). But it only costs $100 or so. The calcium score should indicate the plaque build up in your heart arteries. 0 is perfect, 200 is concerning, 400 is definitely concerning and require a change in your lifestyle. My wife's score was 0. Well, my score was 3,400!. When I got the news, I called up my doctor and said "Whoa, I am afraid to even move! What should I do." I met with my DR. went through a rigorous stress test with dye injected so they could determine the blood flow thru my arterial veins to my heart. Went to Ireland for a 2 week vacation. Returned and called up my Dr to find out the stress test results.. The results were a perfectly normal conclusion of the stress test. His analysis was that my staying in physical condition throughout my life had enabled my heart veins and arteries to enable my blood flow to work! My encouragement to all of you is to keep on what you are doing in terms of running and also resistance training. Best to all

Pacific Northwest runners are the best. This is proof!!

When i was in highschool running cross county. We we had a couch that would train with us. Robert e lee. Everyone called him the general. He was a running nut. Ran lile 50/week wepl into his 60s. Well hed always tell us about all these old dudes. He had us all obsessed with prefontain. Its cool to see this video.

Tony Polhill, NZ Olympic finalist in this race.

Was this the Prefontaine Classic?

Those are some names I haven’t heard of in a long time. Prefontaine was absolutely amazing.

Wow. All these legends in one race!

Whats the deal with the clock?

Awesome footage

Gerry should have been a marathoner, light small and fast

Prefontaine tragically died at 24

Thanks for posting this!

There's a biopic of his life. Jared Leto plays Prefontaine, and he's gorgeous.

Even Oregon didn't have an all weather track when this race was run. It was put in in fall of 1969, just in time for the Pre years.

Running cross country my freshman year in High School Billy Mills , Jim Ryun , 😅Jerry Lingren were the big cahuna’s…Pre came a bit later and Frank Shorter winning an Olympic Marathon was the big stunner. Eugene, Hayward Field, Nike. Many great memories . What a fantastic video.

How I wish I had tried. Or at least had a program. As it was, I sucked. Youth is wasted on the young.

It is wonderful for this running lifer to again see these four racing after so many years. They, along with Jim Ryun and Dave Wottle, were my early running heroes (I started running and racing in 1970 and never stopped). Pre, in particular, was my role model because I was a little blonde kid who tried my best to emulate his take no prisoners racing strategy (alas, with nowhere near his speed or toughness). Pre's 6/15/70 Sports Illustrated magazine is framed and displayed on a wall in my home. Thank you for posting!

So today, what distance has replaced the 2-miler?

Mommy what's a 440?

Three years later, Frank Shorter was the gold medalist in the men’s marathon at Munich, West Germany. (Before the Berlin Wall fell) I had turned 9 less than 2 weeks before-it’s the first Olympics I remember. That race had an impostor that got on the course late in the event. A West German student named Norbert Südhaus ran the last kilometer and entered the stadium before Shorter did.

High schooler Pre versus Olympians!

I used to live a block away from Corvallis High School, where Pre broke the national two mile record. .

Unfortunately he never got a rematch with Virren i still have the Sports Illustrated article Final drive about Steves obituary

Take notes flotrack. This video from 55 years ago is better quality than yours.

This was a gem of a post, thank you.

This is a great video ; I was a decent high school(1970's) track athlete PB 2:03 800 meters; 4:46 mile at 6 feet 200 pounds--so I have great admiration for these runners; but what's with that clock it started out at 37 minutes or something?

I would run on pace for 3 miles and 5 miles to build my strength and movement

All giant names from my generation. Thnx for finding this gem

Winning time in this race 8:45.6 World record in 1969 - 8:19.6 (Ron Clarke) 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂

Man I remember the dirt tracks!😂😂😂😢

This was a very smart race for Lindgren. He appeared to take the sting out of Pre's legs and didn't want to leave it to a sprint at the end.

Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Watching the kids run alongside the track about about 4:45 made me happy.

Pre if he had lived would of been the best runner ever I use to run where he had died in Eugene

Just pure racing by these legends. Thanks so much for posting.

Imagine what these distance legends would have done with today's training,track surfaces,shoes,etc.

Good ol' Hamm's beer! 😂

I saw Jerry run when he was senior HS in South San Francisco at the Cow Palace I think he took 2nd or 3rd against the best at that time. Amazing kid at that time.

These guys are ruining on a cinder track with plain old spikes- no super shoes and super tracks! awesome!

Great stuff , cinder track and excellent competition , this was my era all the way.... Pre was my hero !!

I used to run at Hayward field in Eugene for track city club as a kid, remember seeing pre at the track, my mom knew him!😉👍

Los 2

shame Pree’s running pre swoosh days “getyaswooshon” Steve …

“My oh my” what a great American term & man what a wonderful piece of World Class track footage … Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

I ran a 9:09 in high school. Amazing how fast they are running. You dont know unless youve done it. Im 51 now

Crazy that Pre was fresh out of high school racing against collegiate athletes who had been receiving college coaching

i love how the movie had him always leading from the start as his style