Chris Derrick Dives Deep Into His Successful Career From Running 13:55 (5k) in High School to Running For BTC
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In episode thirty-seven of The Running Effect (with Dominic Schlueter), I speak with the legend Chris Derrick. Chris is easily one of the most successful American distance runners. In high school, he ran 13:55 (in the 5k) and won NXN individually and as a team. In college, Chris ran for Stanford where he was a Fourteen-Time All-American and multi-time NCAA runner up. Chris still owns the American Collegiate NCAA 10k record. He most recently ran for Nike and the Bowerman Track Club where he accomplished many things on the track, grass, and roads.
In this episode, we dive deep into Chris's career from his big high school progression to running professionally for Nike and The Bowerman Track Club. We go into many of his races and get his thoughts and insights on various topics. Lastly, we go into his new blog and personal coaching.
S H O W N O T E S
-Chris's Bowerman Profile: https://www.bowermantc.com/chris-derrick-bio
-Chris's Stanford Profile: https://gostanford.com/sports/track-and-field/roster/chris-derrick/8661
-Chris's Coaching: https://www.highgearrunning.com/about
-Death Camp: https://youtu.be/WnnHps66wcU
Chris's Blog: https://chrisderrick.substack.com/people/13634428-chris-derrick?sort=archive
-The Food Lab: https://www.amazon.com/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0393081087
-Music used for intro/outro: https://youtu.be/hnkUvwOHaf0
God bless you all!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of the running effect with Dominic Schleader. I'm your host, Dominic. |
| 0:14.9 | And on today's episode of the podcast, I speak with Chris Derek from the Bowerman Track Club. Chris is a really amazing guy |
| 0:22.8 | with a really storied career. He ran 1808 for the 3 Mile as a freshman in high school, |
| 0:29.6 | which is a pretty respectable time, but nothing out of this world. Well, flash forward four years |
| 0:34.7 | with having Paul, the legendary Paul der steen as a coach he ran |
| 0:40.8 | ended up running for one of his final races as a senior in track 1355 so he cut over four minutes |
| 0:48.6 | in his high school um over the 5k distance so really fun and inspiring stories throughout his high school career. |
| 0:56.1 | We also go through his years at Stanford and then also his years at Bowerman and just so many |
| 1:01.6 | different subjects, questions, all of that fun stuff. We have a lot of fun questions. We talk about |
| 1:06.4 | death camp. We talk about his new blog, some of his hot takes, rapid fire questions, some of his |
| 1:13.5 | more fun dishes, will we ever write a cookbook? So many fun questions in there, as well as some |
| 1:18.7 | amazing advice from Chris. So I hope you appreciate this episode as much as I did. Special thanks |
| 1:24.0 | to Chris for hopping on the show with me. I really appreciate it. So without further ado, here is my conversation with the man, the myth, the legend, Chris Derek. |
| 1:36.6 | Chris, welcome to the Running Effect podcast. How are you doing this evening? Good. How are you? I'm doing really, really well. I'm excited for our conversation. And starting |
| 1:44.7 | out our conversation, I have two warm-up questions. The first one is, what does a normal day in |
| 1:49.8 | life look like for you? Yeah, pretty simple. You know, normally wake up, drink a bit of coffee, |
| 1:56.7 | do some warm-up exercises, go for a run, come back, eat nap, you know, maybe do a little work, |
| 2:06.3 | maybe hit the gym, and then, you know, maybe another run, cook dinner, hang out with my |
| 2:11.2 | fiance, Sarah, and then go to bed. |
| 2:14.5 | So at altitude camps, I like to ask some of the Bowerman athletes this, but up at |
| 2:19.0 | altitude camps, who do you think, in your opinion, is the best cook? |
| 2:26.0 | Frankly, I think I'm the best cook. Oh, okay. Controversial, I know. I mean, I, as a team |
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