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Quentin Nauman: 3:58 Miler, 10x State Champion, Legendary Kick— How Iowa's Most Dangerous Senior Is Coming for Alan Webb's HS Mile Record Of 3:53
Quentin Nauman is already a legend in Iowa. This spring season is the encore
The greatest prep distance runner in Iowa history enters his final outdoo…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
What It Took for David Perry — 28:42 Collegiate 10K Runner, Former Portland Pilot — to Build the Jewelry Brand Designing Diamond Track Spikes for Nike and Olympians
Colorado-born elite runner turned entrepreneur David Perry is here—a guy who went from captain of Adidas Runners NYC to founder of one of the most ta…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Chosen One: How Cooper Lutkenhaus Became the Youngest World Champion in Track History at 17 — Inside His Training, Mindset & Why He Believes He Can Be the Greatest Of All Time
He won a world title on spring break. Monday morning, he was back in class.
Cooper Lutkenhaus is 17 years old and the youngest world champion in the h…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
How Mark Dowdle Is Preparing to Run 500 Miles and Five Days Straight — and Why Competing Against Others Is the Wrong Goal
Mark Dowdle didn't grow up a runner.
He was a two-sport college athlete who heard David Goggins on a podcast during a bus ride home from a losing lac…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
How Braelyn Combe Went From Missing NXN to Winning a National Mile Title — The 29-Second 200m Kick, Strength Training, and Why She Thinks Sub-4:25 Is Coming This June
She missed NXN in the fall. By March, she was winning national titles.
Braelyn Combe is a senior at Santiago High School in Corona, California, and t…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
How Frankie Ruiz Went From Team Alternate to 17-Time State Champion Coach — The Culture, the 1Team Philosophy, and What Most Coaches Get Backwards + Insights From Coaching Marcelo Mantecon
Miami doesn't have a running culture by accident. Frankie Ruiz built it.
From 17 Florida high school cross country state championships (9 in a row); t…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
How WORLD CHAMPION Josh Kerr Plans to Break a 30-Year World Record With a 3:42 Mile — Project 222, Custom Spikes, and the Mindset Behind History's Boldest Attempt
He said it was his to lose. Then he went out and made sure of it.
Josh Kerr is back on The Running Effect, and this time he's not limping off a global…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The #1 Running Scientist Who Helped Eliud Kipchoge Break 2 Hours In The Marathon Shares What Actually Makes Runners Faster — And What Most Are Getting Wrong
A sub-2-hour marathon was supposed to be impossible. Then Dr. Brad Wilkins built the mathematical model that proved it wasn't, and Nike handed him th…
1 month ago
How NIKE Pro Running Coach Alex Ostberg Reframes Running Nutrition — Donuts as Rocket Fuel, the Durability Lag, Building Injury-Proof Mileage & What To Do After A Bad Race
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What if the secret to running faster is eating a donut?
World-clas…
1 month ago
How Isaiah Photo Transformed His Body and Running in 75 Days — 10 Pounds of Fat Lost, 10 Pounds of Muscle Gained, Marathon PR Incoming
What do you do after you've literally run around the world? For Isaiah Photo, apparently, you wake up at 5 AM every single morning, jump into an ice …
1 month ago