University Of Oregon’s Hayward Field Is America’s Track & Field Mecca

Hayward Field's Main Grandstand and Jack the Bear in Lane 8

We Boomers are always thinking about our health and wellness. You know, what we’re gonna do someday. So 12 years ago jeff noel stopped with the shoulda, woulda, coulda’s for good and began running 100 meters (to his neighbor’s mailbox) a day for a week. How does he sustain momentum years later? One secret is to associate with excellence. Hayward Field is just one of the iconic images noel uses to stay motivated.

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Steve Prefontaine Is America’s Most Famous Distance Runner For A Reason

Steve Prefontaine’s competitors created these infamous t-shirts, 1970.

jeff noel’s shirt look familiar? 2010…

Nike has immortalized only one athlete in a bronze statue. Guess?

It’s the same athlete that said, “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”.

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Associate With Excellence And Aspire To Lofty Places

Birds of a feather flock together. Associate with best in class.

Read carefully under Pre’s name, “America’s Most Famous Distance Runner”

Setting the bar too low and reaching it is worse than setting it too high and failing.

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jeff noel At Hayward Field, University Of Oregon

Ok, so it’s not jeff noel, but Jack The Bear, at University of Oregon’s Hayward Field…

Tip: Find fun ways to use iconic images, stories, legends, customs, traditions. Think of these as logs to add to your fire.

Jack the Bear has travelled the world with jeff noel. More USA National Championships and Olympic trials have been held at Hayward Field than anywhere else. Plus Steve Prefontaine ran here. Pre, a rebel, who just happened to be a runner.

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Wednesday Quotes, 2/5

I sometimes think that running has given me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both the mind and body….. The runner does not know how or why he runs. He only knows that he must run….. We run, not because it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. — Roger Bannister, 1956

Fact: More USA Track & Field National Championships and Olympic Trails have been held at Oregon’s Hayward Field than anywhere else. Period.

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