Without Limits By Steve Prefontaine

The second movie I will go over is “Without Limits”. This movie is about long distance running the movie’s main character is Steve Prefontaine. The description of the movie is he was “reowned distance runner who held every record from 2,000 through 10,000 metes”. The movie shows him running away from kids when he was little, and this is the reason why he started running. Steve has been a great long distance runner sense he was in high school. He could out run anybody at his age. The movie starts off in Munich on Stepember 1972. He was getting ready to run for the United States. Then the movie has a flashback to when he was in high school. He was running a cross country event, and he had college scouts looking at him. He was getting all sort
He got visits from other people from the university. Once he got a letter in the mail from Bill Bowerman saying he wanted him to attend University of Oregon, he made up his mind where he wanted to go for college. He had all expenses paid for by the university. Bowerman had his first track and field meeting at 7:27am. Steve was confused why the coach had the start time at such an odd time. He asked the coach why he didn’t just have it at 7:30am. The coach stated the reason why I have meeting at 7:27am because it imposes the question why is it starting at 7:27. I found this is a unique way to get people to show up to a meeting. They begin training, the coach then starts giving pointers to the runners about how to become more efficient runners. The movie then goes into Steve first meet for the university. He shows everyone how good he is, and his coach sees he’s a front runner. He like to lead the pack of runners the crowd is felt by everyone after Steve finishes the race in first place. Bowerman tells his assistant to have Steve his last for goal setting
He told her the reason why he can win all the matches is because he can endure more pain than anyone he has ever met. He had another meeting with his coach, they had a plan, so he could win Olympic qualifying match. His coach wanted him to increase his pace throughout the race, so the other racers didn’t have enough left in the tank to beat him at the end. During the meet the coach continued to talk about his performance, but Steve said racing wasn’t about performance it was a “work of art”. He went on the win the Olympic qualifying match with his coach’s strategy. The coach gives his team a pre-competition match speech to the team about the Olympic Games it takes a lot more to beat someone in an event than killing them, this happened after Israel athletes were killed before the Olympic games started. This pep-talk is designed to energize the team for the competition ahead. The film goes onto the long distance running event with Steve Pre, he took his coaches advice, and you can see him running behind other players using them to break the wind. Although he had trouble transitioning to the front when he wanted to move up, he was blocked by other runners when he wanted to break from the pack. He ended up coming in fourth place for the Olympic long distance running