" In the never-ending struggle against boredom, Pre wanted to run new routes. "All right, you guys decide where we're going to run," he would challenge Feig and Bence when they trained together on the roads. Feig would suggest the Bike Trail or Skinner's Butte, and Pre would respond with "That's not very original; everybody does that all the time."

"So we'd end up with him going off in the lead and end up running the same old thing we'd done before," Bence says, "

― , Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine