Fifty years after

I saw Pre's breakout race in 1969 and his last race in 1975 — and, like so many, marveled at the in-between

At a 2024 Register-Guard reunion, Brian Lanker’s iconic 1975 photo of Prefontaine just before his final race — and only hours before he died.

A HANDFUL OF US are probably still alive, perhaps a few dozen, but I know of only one other beside myself who saw them both: Steve Prefontaine’s first truly great race and his last.

A Corvallis High friend, John Wo…