I took a little trip to Oregon this week and I stayed in Eugene Oregon where the famous Hayward field is located. What the heck is Hayward field you ask? 

Well it is was Steve Prefontaine’s home track. Pre is considered to be among the greatest and most inspirational runners ever. He would run every race as hard as he could which always put him in the front of the race field much to coach Bowerman’s annoyance. He ran from his heart win or lose. There are couple of pretty good movies about Pre, the one I like best is: Without Limits with Billy Crudup as Pre.

It was the place where the University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman (also the co-founder of Nike, thank you very much Bill) worked his magic. Here’s some of his highlights: training 31 olympic athletes, 51 all-americans, 12 American record-holders, 24 NCAA champions, and 16 sub-4 minute milers. No bad huh?

This years’ olympic track and field trials were held there.  Oh gosh the history just dripped off the place.

I went for a run on the track which was great cuz I felt I was part of the history of the place. If you ever find yourself in Eugene Oregon I highly recommend stopping in for a run on the beautiful Hayward field