Running In Circles

Today on the podcast I’m joined by Ali Ince!

Ali is a freshman at the University of Oregon where she runs cross country and track, and has been having an outstanding year so far.

In high school Ali was an elite runner while also playing basketball. She was the new balance indoor nationals 800m champion and held personal best including 4:35 in the mile and 2:03 in the 800.

At cross country nationals she placed 104th as a true college freshman and she had never been to a national cross country meet in high school. After cross country season she went on to run 4:32 in the mile at Boston university.

In this conversation we go into her experience at Oregon so far and tackle the question of what has made her so successful as true freshman. She shares that she wasn’t even planning on running cross country this year but ended up gaining more fitness than she thought she would and helped her team place 5th at nationals.

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Introducing  episode one of A behind the scenes look at what it’s like to chase D1 NCAA titles!

Whenever someone wins a national title you might find yourself wondering what the X factor was. Was it the team culture? Was it the workouts? The high mileage? Are they just talented? This series will help shed some light on answers to these questions and will help you get to know one of the coolest guys on the college running scene.

This is episode 1 of The Life of an NCAA Champion with Nathan Green.

A series featuring Washington’s Middle distance star Nathan Green who won the outdoor 1500 national championship in 2023. It will follow his 2025 indoor season as he goes after another NCAA title. Every other week we will release another episode that will go over insights into his life and the ups and downs of his training. Nathan holds school records in the 3k (7:40), 800m (1:46), 1000m (2:18), and the 1500 (3:32). Not to mention he placed 5th in the 1500 at the U.S. Olympic trials last year.

Someone from Washington University has won the 1500 outdoors/mile indoors 5 times in a row and one of those people was Nathan Green in 2023. This series is an inside look at the best middle distance program in the country.

In episode 1 we discuss what the past year has looked like for Nathan and how rebounded from 10th in the NCAA to go place 5th at the Olympic trials and much more!

Please join me as I document what might be one of the greatest seasons in college running history. All I ask is that you please share this episode with a friend so more people can gain value from Nathan’s experience and take a few seconds to leave a five star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts because it really helps the podcast grow.

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Today I’m joined by Chloe Thomas!

Chloe had one of the most underrated cross country seasons this year and is looking to Continue her momentum into the indoor season.

She won the Big East Championship individually leading her team to 3rd place, won the NorthEast regional meet, placed 9th at nationals and ran a 15:17 5k for a UConn school record a U23 Canadian record.

In this episode we discuss her plans to race the Canadian circuit in hopes for a trip to the Tokyo World Championships during outdoors, the value of community and competing for a less talked about school in UConn.

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Today I’m joined by Virginia’s Gary Martin!

Gary just placed 13th at NCAA cross country Nationals and ran a 7:36 3k to end the season which puts him #4 on the NCAA all time list.

He’s also the 2024 ACC cross country champion and performer of the year.

He’s been consistently getting better throughout college but so far this year he’s gotten to another level. In 2023 he placed 219th at cross nationals and jumped up all the way to 13th this year.

In this episode we discuss everything that went into this season, how he approaches his break and more.

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In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Ethan Strand who just set the NCAA 3k record with an astonishing time of 7:30. That is almost 4 minute per mile pace.

First we discuss how he was feeling going into it and then we pull up the race and he takes me through it.

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Today I’m joined by JoJo Jourdon!

JoJo was a sub four miler in high school and a national champion at Nike Cross Nationals.

This year at wake Forest he placed 8th at the ACC Championships, helping his team come away with the win, placed 47th at Cross Country Nationals and was named the ACC freshman of the year.

He started out as a red shirt for his first couple races but as his confidence built he decided he wanted to represent the team and help them in every way possible.

As he says in this episode that he wouldn’t have been able to live with himself he saw the boys lose and thought he could do something to help.

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Today I’m joined by Marco Langon!

Marco has one of the most remarkable stories I’ve ever heard. From a car crash in high school all the way to 15th at NCAA Cross Country Nationals and he’s still just scratching the surface.

You’ll find out very quickly from Listening that Marco isn’t the type of guy to make excuses and is committed to the grind.

Just after recording this episode he ran 13:14 in the indoor 5k to become #13 on the NCAA all time list.

He’s a Jr. at Villanova University and is going to be the first person in his family to graduate and get a degree.

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Today I’m joined by Owen Powell!

Owen opened up his season with a 3 mile cross country high school National record of 13:30 and a win at the prestigious Woodbridge invitational.

He’s been killing it for a while as last track season he won a national title in the indoor 800, ran 1:48 outdoors in the 800 and set a national record in the 1k outdoors with a time of 2:23.

But as he says in this episode this year he really figured cross country out.

In the past couple weeks he won a state championship individually and with his team in Washington and qualified for Nike cross Nationals by placing 3rd at his regional meet.

You’ll want to Watch out for him late in the race at Nationals as he’s had some crazy kicks this season to take down the nations best competition.

This episode is a great one as we discuss what Owen’s successful day would like at NXN, break down his season so far and more.

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Today I’m joined by someone who has a very bright future in the sport!

Vincent Ciattei is here and he’s here to stay.

He runs for Under Armor’s Mission Run Dark Sky Distance which is based in Flagstaff Arizona.

Last year he placed 4th in the 1500m at the Olympic Trials in route to running 3:31, won the USATF road mile Championship and ran a 3:50 mile indoors. Not to mention back at college he was runner-up in the NCAA mile and 1500.

The guy knows how to run his best at the most important time of the year.

In the this episode we discuss his crazy year last season, how he developed as an athlete at Virginia Tech, what’s to come and more.

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Today I’m joined by Klaudia Kazimierska!

Klaudia just helped Oregon win a Big Ten Cross Country title by placing 11th and a West Regional title by placing 12th, which secured an automatic bid to Nationals for the women of Oregon.

She also holds a personal best of 3:59 in the 1500m and represented Poland in the Olympics over the summer where she placed 10th in the world. And she got on the podium in the 2024 NCAA 1500m final where she placed 3rd.

After her incredible track season Nike took notice and she recently signed an NIL deal with them which she was stoked about.

Klaudia almost didn’t run cross country for the Ducks this year because of how long her  track season was but she ended up going for it and is having quite the impact.

Tune into this episode to hear Klaudia discuss how Oregon needed some time to adjust but these incredible team performances aren’t a surprise to them, her pursuit of sub four over last track season, her favorite things to bake and more.

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