**Steve Prefontaine** 1973 Rare Indoor Mile VS World Best Middle Distance Runners

seventy-three we're at the Los Angeles forum for the LA Times mile 11 laps of the track looks like shorty cops keep into the early lead nobody very anxious to go they were looking like cyclists bunching on the outside they're Prefontaine straight through into the lead and Johnson tucking in behind him and Lee Corinne third I think this will probably be the pattern of the race for four or five laps Prefontaine says he's in good form he's always anxious to put on a good display I talked him before the race he seemed pretty spirited tonight and he's looking at I think forward to trying to get a pretty fast time obviously in great shape after that American record the two-mile I think Prefontaine being a distance runner a three-mile or 5000 meter runner really enjoys coming down to the mile and rubbing the specialists noses in it but he will have to keep up a pretty nifty pace it's gonna be around 60 second place for the first quarter this is it right here Adrian [Music] so they're within the range of a pretty good time probably shooting maybe in this race for the fastest mile of the season it's a slight problem because if Prefontaine doesn't hit a slightly faster rhythm but nobody's going to take over the lead from him because all these mile specialists are quite happy to have somebody out there running a rabbit at the front looks like a train right now nice neat line going around the track you drink easiest way to run enforce is to sit in and just follow the rhythm of the leader surely Koski surprisingly making a move Marty still in the middle that pack running just with the group contented right now to be exactly where he is six laps to go nearly halfway through the race still Prefontaine leading from shorty coughs key Johnson third now del Varner bit early for the quarry struggling slightly in 52 minutes right around two minutes for the half mile the face has picked up slightly and Prefontaine is digging in again just finding a little bit extra it's a critical lap tchaikovsky that's nice and easy in second this is the lap they'll have to pick up if they're gonna get around four minutes they're gonna have to run at least a 59 or 60 in this one still Prefontaine from shorty costs key looks like he has picked it up a little bit interesting that the Italian Dale Bordeaux has moved into third place he's a very good improved runner he's Marty's second from the rear doesn't look too great a position right now it looks like he's laboring a little bit but it's hard to tell should it cost he seems to spend more time adjusting his headband than worrying about his tactics on the track and now Johnson moving dangerously through into third place and liquori at last beginning to wake up coming up to the 3/4 time about 301 for the 313 24 look at this going on at the back burner moving through in the third place and the core I'll have to follow him but junctions keeping him out still Prefontaine up at the front with shorty Khan significant too much to go liquori now muscle his right go into third place Prefontaine still running off the front and everybody stretching will stay with him but the chlorine really sprinting they came upon the terms becomes morning gonna be a marvelous last lap Prefontaine lady with shorty calcium Liguori together the gun goes snow Prefontaine and great distance run us together and free from Chinese giving it everything he's run the hallways in fun and he looks as if Lycoris right and they'll burn of Italy's coming during the third place its containment another chilly system nine points to pre-fund trainsets a new low best time is just a fraction outside the meet record they'll burn of Italy a new Italian record in second place and the brightly colored suit in the quarry only manages third and 16,000 people here in the forum really had a race for the money in that mile race Prefontaine running away right from the front took hold of the whole crowd here and you're obviously pretty pleased about it very pleased was it a tactical plan to go up from the front well I think everybody knew my plan for me to win a race against competition of that nature I have to go out hard and and just about lead from the start because the runners in that field except for Jim Johnson are all runners that hang on and then I'll kick you at the last so I my tactics was just to go strong and run the first three quarters of a mile hard and then just hang on the last quarter you didn't seem to be hanging on you look like you could have got about three more laps I could have maybe got one more lap but I don't have three more does it give you a thrill as a long-distance runner to come and beat the models at their own game yeah I wish I could be some of the three milers at their own

Channel: Michael Hamlin

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Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: pre, steve, prefontaine, mile, indoor, 1973, l.a., track, race, world, best

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Length: 5min 28sec (328 seconds)

Published: Mon May 27 2019