What are the time qualifications to sport a Steve Prefontaine mustache?

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1 week ago 06/24/2024 10:00am EDT

I am surprised I haven't found the answer to this anywhere else yet. I have a dream to reach the running level at which I have earned the right to wear a mustache like Steve Prefontaine, but I have been unable to find any published social time standards required to be eligible for this. Does anyone have the information on how fast I have to be to legally have a Steve Prefontaine mustache? For example I presume Craig Engels is qualified, but I don't imagine I'll ever approach his race times. Or perhaps the qualification standard is measured by something else other than PR's/SB's? Any info you can share would be appreciated...

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1 week ago 06/24/2024 10:11am EDT

re: ryantherunner

The only qualification that counts is whether you were born in the 1960s

1 week ago 06/24/2024 10:53am EDT

re: heymcfly

heymcfly wrote:
The only qualification that counts is whether you were born in the 1960s

So not for those born in 1951 … like Pre.

1 week ago 06/24/2024 10:58am EDT

re: ryantherunner

It’s a great question and good to see a thread deserving of genuine discussion.

My initial thoughts; I don’t think it’s time related. Rather, the manner of how you race.

A moustache needs to be accompanied by revealing, side cut shorts and, most importantly, an outrageous kick that sees the athlete move from last place to medal contention.

Absolutely NO front running allowed.

1 week ago 06/24/2024 11:04am EDT

re: Winthorpe53

Winthorpe53 wrote:
Absolutely NO front running allowed.

What? i dont get the joke of why you would not be allowed to front run like Pre if you rocked a Pre moustache?

As an aside, now that i think about it if Mantz wasnt so stubbornly cleancut he could pull off a mean Pre look.

1 week ago 06/24/2024 11:40am EDT

re: ryantherunner

If you’re in high school or your first year of college, these time standards are maybe 5s slower but I’m thinking:

Mile - 4:10(3:52/1500)

5k - 14:00

10k - 28:45

BUT for time standard purposes you can knock 10s/mi off your PR if you front run everything and race gutsy

1 week ago 06/24/2024 11:43am EDT

re: ryantherunner

It's not so much about time as it is about personality. You've just got to be a raging d-bag, like Pre, to pull it off.

What about a 31-year-old dad with a full-time job? 😆

1 week ago 06/24/2024 11:54am EDT

re: sorry.

sorry. wrote:
Winthorpe53 wrote:
Absolutely NO front running allowed.
What? i dont get the joke of why you would not be allowed to front run like Pre if you rocked a Pre moustache?
As an aside, now that i think about it if Mantz wasnt so stubbornly cleancut he could pull off a mean Pre look.

This is true, and a significant error in my reasoning.

I maintain that there has to be a recklessness in rocking a moustache. You need to give the impression that you are seconds away from red lining. You couldn’t really see Jakob pulling one off - with his perfectly paced control.

1 week ago 06/24/2024 11:58am EDT

re: ryantherunner

No time qualification necessary, but you must ride a horse or at least hold up a stagecoach.

1 week ago 06/24/2024 12:06pm EDT

re: Winthorpe53

Winthorpe53 wrote:
I maintain that there has to be a recklessness in rocking a moustache.

I had thought that mustaches were more common in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, sort of like bell-bottoms and certain long hairstyles.

And then at some point in the ‘80s, the stache became more associate with adult film performers and the Castro Clone look of Freddie Mercury … and still, I suspect, cowboys.

So it receded from mainstream fashion. In recent years, the stache has made a comeback.

It’s a trend.

So I don’t know that a stache shows any greater tendency to recklessness than a broccoli haircut does.

1 week ago 06/24/2024 1:57pm EDT

re: You want to stop Pre

You want to stop Pre wrote:
heymcfly wrote:
The only qualification that counts is whether you were born in the 1960s
So not for those born in 1951 … like Pre.

In the 60/70s the moustache was not meant to be ironic, they BELIEVED, deep down, that they looked good. Kinda like young bucks these days rockin a mullet to be ironic. Back in the 80s, they sported them because they looked good.

If you don't believe you look good in your heart of hearts, you have no business with either one. Its got nothing to do with time.

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