Coffee with Larry, May 30, 2024, Some thoughts on the late Steve Prefontaine

This is Coffee with Larry for Wednesday, May 30, 2024.

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JAMBAR has 34 grams of carbohydrates and 10 grams of protein and is sweetened with maple syrup.

Jenny Maxwell and her late husband, Brian, founded the sports energy bar category in 1985 with POWERBAR. They sold the brand in 2000, and Brian passed in 2004. For the next two decades, Jenny raised their six children, and then, three years ago, at the suggestion of her youngest daughter, Jenny Maxwell, she began to develop JAMBAR.

I learned about JAMBAR at the Running Event last December, and it tastes great!

1. This podcast is about the late Steve Prefontaine, who died 49 years ago on the streets of Eugene, Oregon, avoiding another car.

2. Steve Prefontaine owned ARs at 2,000m, 3,000m, 2 miles, 3 miles, 5,000m, six miles and 10,000ms.

3. He finished 4th in the 5,000m in Munich 1972.

4. On the night of his death, he ran one of his fastest 5,000m at the Hayward Restoration Meeting.

5. Soon after Pre’s death, the meet was renamed the Prefontaine Classic.

6. In April 1975, Steve Prefontaine, a NIKE sports marketing dude with Geoff Hollister, sent a pair of NIKE racing flats with a note to Bill Rodgers, who had just placed third in the World Cross Country Champs, the World Series (then ) of distance running. Bill would wear them to win the 1975 Boston Marathon in AR of 2:09.55.

7. Please read the book PRE! by Tom Jordan.

8. Pre died at the age of 25, way before his promise and he could live his life, that is the tragedy and the loss of his time with his family and friends.

9. His legacy is the NIKE Pre Classic, and he sure would have loved it in 2024!

See you tomorrow for Coffee with Larry!