"We went through so many things together in such a short period of time, and at that period of your life when you're developing a lot of deep feelings about life. "I would always say that we were very good friends, and very bad lovers," said Marckx, now 45. IN THE BEGINNING, Mary Marckx wanted no part of a movie about Steve Prefontaine, with whom she had shared a deep love, and who had remained a haunting presence in her life long after his death in 1975.Īfter all, Marckx had spent more than 20 years trying to leave the past in the past, trying to live her own life, a life that had been profoundly affected by her tumultuous relationship, over our-and-a-half years, with the charismatic Oregon distance runner. This article explains why Mary was featured in Without Limits but not in the earlier Prefontaine:
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