Day Five

Day 5 (rest day 07-01-08)
My how time flies! I can’t believe we are in July already. But when you are having the time of your life, I guess you just have to expect time to fly. Rest days up here are kind of misnomers because you are still busy. It’s just that you are busy outside of the stadium instead of in it. After breakfast, Joe, Mel, Len, Ed, and yours truly took a hike up the road from here to where Steve Prefontaine, Eugene’s legendary running icon, met his maker. In a tragic alcohol related accident, Pre was returning home from a post race party when the small sports car he was driving careened into a large bolder alongside the road and America’s greatest distance run was dead at the age of 26. This bolder is now know as “Pre’s Rock” and is kind of a shine in his honor where visitors leave notes, medals, tee-shirts, flowers, running shoes, and other running related items. My afternoon was spent ride along bike trails along the Willamette River Bikeway System. It was just another day in Paradise. A little more food for thought: The other day at the meet, I saw a tee-shirt with the following written on the back, “Track and Field, the only true sport, everything else is just a game.” Agree or disagree?