Ahmed Muhumed After Becoming The 2024 USATF 5K Champion | Race Reflections + NAZ Elite Team Culture
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🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
"I want to reach the goals that I know I'm capable of reaching. It's going to require me to do things I have not done in the past. I feel like I just kept doing the same thing over and over in the past where I'm just coming top three, top four, top five. Sometimes I was satisfied with that. But I think if you want to be a champion, you can't be satisfied with that."
Ahmed Muhamed of NAZ Elite sits down with us for a live interview after winning the 2024 Abbott Dash To The Finish Line 5K in 13:38.
The race kicks off on Sunday, November 3rd with the women’s race starting at 8:35am E.T. and the men following at 9:05am E.T. (Don’t forget to set your clock back an hour the night before!) The race will be streamed nationally on ESPN and locally on ABC.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are here. The champ is in the house. |
| 0:04.0 | The champ is here. |
| 0:05.0 | Ahmed, fresh off winning the 5K national champion here in New York City. |
| 0:11.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:12.0 | I feel good, man. I feel really good. |
| 0:14.0 | I love running in the streets of New York. |
| 0:17.0 | I was fourth and two years ago and second last year. So he's the only upgrade we could |
| 0:22.8 | have done. Yeah. It worked out today. So second national title for you? Yes. I did the AK |
| 0:27.8 | three and a half months ago and that was my first title. And then to come back here after |
| 0:32.7 | three months of just really base building is great. It's a weird time to be fit, right? |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:38.4 | So I think we're strength fit. |
| 0:40.5 | I don't think we're sharp fit, which is good. |
| 0:43.2 | We just been building a lot of mileage and just really, |
| 0:46.0 | we did our first V-O2 work last Friday. |
| 0:49.8 | And so it's good to be just back here and, you know, race again. |
| 0:54.9 | But yeah, strength fit for sure. |
| 0:56.4 | Haven't even done speed work? |
| 0:58.2 | You know what? |
| 0:59.4 | I won't say that. |
| 1:00.9 | You're not going to catch you a lacking. |
| 1:02.6 | You're not going to catch me a lack. |
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