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Steve Pre 2 Puzzle Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/17/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Why is my user name Stevepre2. It is just me being funny. I do some running and have run a few half marathons. I learned of Steve Pre and share his first name. Thus, Steve Pre 2. The 2 for me being as fast as him and making me the second Steve Pre. Or, because I am twice as slow as he was. You decide.

The 2 difficulty is from solving the puzzle, the cache itself will be pretty easy other than you may have to avoid muggles.

Do not go to the above coordinates. Learn about Steve Pre and fill in the numbers of this puzzle to get the cache location:

N39 AB.CDE W084 FG.HIJ

Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (January 25, 195C – May 30, 19E5) was an American middle and long-distance runner. Prefontaine once held the American record in the seven distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters. When Prefontaine arrived at Marshfield High School in 19B5, he joined the cross country team, coached by Walt McClure, Jr. Prefontaine's freshman and sophomore years were described as unspectacular, though starting out as the seventh man, he progressed to be the second by year's end and placed 5Drd in the state championship. He went through his junior cross country season undefeated and won the state title. He won two more state titles that year after another undefeated season, one in the mile and the other in the two mile.

College (1970–1973)

Prefontaine was recruited by several top track programs across the United States, but decided to enroll at the University of Oregon to train under coach Bill Bowerman (who in 196A founded Blue Ribbon Sports, later known as Nike). He won the NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship three of his four years at Oregon, because he sat out in 19G2 to train for the Olympics in Munich. He suffered only two more defeats in college (both in the mile), winning three Division I NCAA Cross Country Championships and four straight three-mile/5000-meter titles in track. Prefontaine was an aggressive runner, insisting on going out hard and not relinquishing leads. 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". A local celebrity, chants of "Pre! Pre! Pre!" became a frequent feature at Hayward Field, a mecca for track and field in the USA. Fans wore t-shirts that read "LEGEND", while those who supported other teams wore shirts with the phrase "STOP PRE" printed on a stop sign. Prefontaine gained national attention and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 1H. Prefontaine set the American record in the 5000 meters race, the event that took him to the 1J72 Summer Olympic Games in Munich. In the finals, Prefontaine took the lead in the last mile and ended the slow pace of the first two miles. In second place at the start of the bell lap, he fell back to third with 200 meters to go. Lasse Virén took the lead in the final turn over silver medalist Mohammed Gammoudi. Prefontaine ran out of gas with 30 meters to go as Britain's hard-charging Ian Stewart caught him from behind and moved into third place within ten meters of the finish, depriving Prefontaine of an Olympic medal.

After college (1974–1975)

Following his collegiate career at Oregon, Prefontaine prepared for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. While running for the Oregon Track Club, Pre set American records in every race from 2000 to 10000 meters. Death On May 30, 1975, returning from a party, after dropping off friend and distance champion Frank Shorter, Prefontaine was driving down Skyline Boulevard, east of the University of Oregon campus near Hendricks Park when his orange 19IF MGB convertible swerved into a rock wall and flipped. The overturned car trapped Prefontaine underneath it. The first witness on the scene, a nearby resident, ran outside and found Prefontaine flat on his back, still alive but pinned beneath the wreck. After trying and failing to lift the vehicle, the bystander ran to get help. By the time he returned with others, the weight of the car had crushed Prefontaine's chest, killing him. At the time of his death, his blood alcohol concentration was .16. Steve Prefontaine is buried at Sunset Memorial Park in his hometown, Coos Bay.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)