Steve Prefontaine was an exceptional long distance runner who lived the years of 1951 - 1975.  His death came as a car crash coming home from a party. He slammed into a rock ledge, flipping his car and crushing his body, as experts say. He left behind many memories and also many running records. I would want to interview him because he inspired me as a runner for several years.  He was able to be cocky and know that he wasn’t going to let anyone beat him.  He also had this intimidation factor that who ever looked at him just got scared (competition wise). I would get information about running since im going to transfer to another school to begin running again.  Also get information about his life other than running, which wasn’t much.  The 3 biggest questions i would ask him would be:

1) What was it like growing up in a small town and being able to know you had the talent to run at such a fast pace?

2) If you could run one race over which race would it be?

3) No one knows for sure the way you died, experts just came up with the car hitting the rock ledge theory because it made sense. Was alcohol a factor in your death? Was there a deer? another car? What happened that night?

…… then i’d ask for his autograph