428: Cole Hocker - I Can Win The Biggest Race On the Biggest Day

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Sports, Fitness, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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You may recognize Cole Hocker from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, where he captured gold in the men’s 1500 meters and set a new Olympic record. He is also the 2025 World Champion in the 5000 meters. He’s stayed on top ever since, most recently taking the win at the prestigious Millrose Games. With a lighter summer season ahead, Cole sits down with Carrie to catch up on life, covering everything from training and racing to making music and how even the best handle their nerves. As THE best in the world over the past two years, Cole opens up about his mindset, how he keeps the fire alive, and the role faith plays in sustaining a long, successful career. Balancing elite competition with genuine fun, Cole proves there’s something in his journey that everyone can learn from.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. I'm Olympian Kerry Telloffson and welcome to the C-Tali Run podcast. This week on the show, I'm super pumped. We have Olympic champ, World champ, U.S. champ, NCAA champ, and state champ, Cole Hawker. Yeah, you heard that right. In this episode,
0:23.1	we hear all about his latest wins, including a big one at the prestigious Milrose Games. We chat
0:28.3	all about the last couple of years, what it's like to finally have a summer without a global
0:33.3	championship. And we also hear about how he wins, his tactics, his mindset, his training. We hear
0:40.8	about his music and so much more. So let's get after it. Cool. Thank you so much for coming back
0:49.7	on C-Tali Run. It's been a while. I think it's been since like before the Olympics for sure.
0:54.4	I was telling you before because I'm a little nervous about bugging all of you and you're so
0:59.6	busy with your time and you're so gracious to give it to everybody. So I haven't been like
1:03.6	knocking at your door very much, but I did this week because you've had an awesome indoor season
1:08.3	already. So thanks for coming back on. Yeah, no, thanks for having me. And, yeah, like you said, it's been a good start just with, I mean, Melrose last weekend. And, yeah, it's been good. I know. You've had, like, I guess you've already had a few races, a couple, you know, just at home on your home track and you've done some great
1:28.6	things, set the American record and the 2K. And it has been broken. It was broken the next day
1:34.2	by Hobbs Kessler. But you weren't in that same race. But anyway, you did that. You even ran after
1:38.8	Milrose, right? Did you just run something last weekend? Yeah. No, it's been three weekends in a row of, yeah, kind of like, I mean, they're hard,
1:47.2	hard at efforts here at Virginia Tech, which is like where I'm training.
1:53.3	But it's kind of a mix between all-out race and a controlled time trial, but getting that
1:58.7	race simulation.
1:59.8	But yeah, we've done three of them, just did
2:01.2	a 1K a couple days ago. And also, yeah, ran a PR in that. So, yeah, it was a good one.
2:07.1	Yeah. I was surprised to see that you would run this last weekend because you're getting
2:11.5	ready for the sound invitation this weekend. So we got to, we got to break down this whole
2:16.5	indoor season. And like like there's a lot packed
2:19.4	into it even though I'm not quite sure what you're going to do with it. So congratulations on
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