Pre Lives

I recently bought an old school track jacket, written on the back is "Pre Lives."

Steve Prefontaine was a crazy runner with a great 'stache who said, "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift." Here is the only thing you really need to know about Pre from Wikipedia:

Prefontaine was an aggressive runner, insisting on going out hard and not relinquishing leads, a tactic that his fans and fellow competitors admired. He was quoted as saying, "No one will ever win a 5,000 meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me." He would later state, "I am going to work so that it's a pure guts race. In the end, if it is, I'm the only one that can win it."

It is sad when greats die young, though as the jacket says, "Pre Lives."