22: Drew Hunter - Every Step of the Way

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Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Carrie interviews elite runner Drew Hunter! They chat about his decision to sign with Adidas straight out of high school, his struggle with lyme disease and his racing plans for 2017.

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Drew Hunter

Drew Hunter is an American distance runner from Purcellville, VA. He is the national indoor mile record holder for high school athletes, a feat he achieved in 2016 with a time of 3 minutes 57.81 seconds. Drew won the High School Boys 3000-meter race as a high school sophomore at the Penn Relays Carnival in 2014. He went on to set the national sophomore class record in the 3000m in 8:16.31. In the fall of 2014, Hunter placed 4th at the Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships. He won the New Balance National Indoor two-mile national title in a winning time of 8:48.22. He started his outdoor season with a 4:07 victory at the Penn Relays, becoming the first high school athlete since Olympian Matt Centrowitz to own both the high school boys 3K and mile Penn Relays titles. Hunter achieved a season best of 4:02.36 at the Adidas Dream Mile at the Adidas Grand Prix. In 2015, Drew set a course record of 14:26 at the Foot Locker South regional meet before winning his first Foot Locker National title in 14:55.7. In his indoor debut, Hunter broke the high school boys national 3k record with a time of 7:59.33 at the Camel City Elite meet in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He followed up that performance with another national record in the high school boys indoor mile, running 3:58.25 at the Armory Track and Field Invitational. By doing this he became the 8th High School Athlete to break 4 minutes in the mile. He was also the second High School Athlete to break 4 in the mile indoors. Hunter then waited two weeks before resetting the record with a 3:57.81 performance at the Milrose Games. He signed a 10-year contract with Adidas in July 2016 and went pro instead of running in a collegiate program.

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0:33.8	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson, and welcome to the C- Sea Talley Run podcast. Today I'm interviewing Drew Hunter. Drew holds the American record for the indoor high school mile set in 2016 in a time of 357.81. Following high school, he went pro and signed with Adidas. He's been tearing it up ever since.
1:00.9	In this interview, Drew talked about his 2015 Foot Locker National Championship win, which I got to witness.
1:06.0	He opens up about his struggle with Lyme disease and chats about his future racing plans.
1:07.9	So let's get after it.
1:12.0	We finally got connected.
1:16.8	You and I had some technical difficulties, but you were cool, and you actually taught me something new.
1:17.4	We can Skype through our iPhone, so that's pretty cool.
1:20.6	Yeah, I mean, I guess this will work, and who needs a computer then, right?
1:25.1	That's right, but you know what I loved about it?
1:26.6	It was that you were saying your mom. You still have your mom help you and i'm a mom now and i hope that my little
1:32.8	guys will let me help them when i'm 20 when they're 22 23 years old you're not even that old yet
1:39.1	you're only 19 right or are you 20 yeah i'm 19 uh turn 20 in September. So I feel like you should be 22 or 23 because you've been around for a while already.
1:50.9	Yeah, but it's good. My mom's better with technology than me.
1:54.2	So she'll probably make fun of me later, but it's fun.
1:57.8	I love it. Well, this is an honor to have you, and I'm so glad to see that you're
2:02.1	back at it. You're running fast and you're doing great. Yeah, no, it's exciting to be, and I'm glad to be
2:09.0	on here. And yeah, I'm just really excited for the future, and I can't wait to see what I can do
2:15.4	the rest of the season. Yeah, so let's just rewind for some of our listeners.
2:19.4	You know, you were in a phenomenal high school athlete, and you came straight out of high school
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