NCAAs & NY Champ Abdi Nageeye (Guest) + Jon & Wejo Go to Vegas Virtually with Noah Lyles, Hobbs Kessler, More

16 days ago

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New York City Marathon champion Abdi Nageeye joins us at 62:32 to discuss his NYC triumph, his incredible life and career, has a book recommendation, and oh yeah tells that crazy story when he quit the track and the cops were called to Mo Farah's house.

Prior to that we break down the latest in the running and track and field world and look ahead to this week's NCAA championships.

Jacob Kiplimo broke the 15k world record (and we forgot to discuss it :), Gabby Thomas got USATF athlete of the year over Sydney, and Jon and Weldon went to Las Vegas virtually with Noah Lyles, Rai Benjamin, Bryce Hoppel, Nico Young, Jasmine Jones, and Hobbs Kessler. We discuss all of that, and Grand Slam Track's 4 locations before Abdi Nageeye joins the show.

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  • Show notes:
  • 00:00 Abdi Nageeye Podcast
  • 01:06 Intro Music
  • 01:29 Start
  • 05:30 Global Athletics Vegas Media Summit (Lyles, Benjamin, Hoppel, Kessler, Nico)
  • 06:12 Breaking news: Hoppel won't...
  • 11:12 Grand Slam Track update: Venues & Dates announced
  • 21:53 Gabby over Sydney as USATF Athlete of Year?
  • 27:17 USATF Distance Athlete of Year: Cole Hocker or Grant Fisher?
  • 29:32 Unearthed audio from Jon Gault on Cole Hocker
  • 31:20 Rojo clip 37:50 NCAA cross country
  • 55:42 Men's individual battle
  • 01:02:32 Abdi Nageeye guest
  • 01:04:03 How has life changed since winning New York?
  • 01:12:04 Leaving Patrick Sang's group and Gary Lough
  • 01:18:01 Being broke
  • 01:24:15 Good training but poor races
  • 01:28:33 The Dutch family that changed his life
  • 01:31:52 His training
  • 01:33:40 Book recommendation (*Link here Book is called Solve for Happy in English and Logic of Happiness in Dutch, same book)
  • 01:35:53 The 2024 NYC race- what was different this year?
  • 01:41:01 Using the potty
  • 01:44:57 Will he defend title?
  • 01:46:08 Running Pre, deciding he was done with the track, the police being called at Mo Farah's house

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