I don't know what it is and people have asked me, oh, what does your, like, motivation come from?

Like, oh, is it like, are you inspired by people? Yeah, sure, I'm inspired by people, but that's not my biggest source of motivation. And I think just from a very young age, even though I didn't do sports or anything like that, I just found myself to be very intrinsically motivated. and whenever I put my mind to something, I was going to commit 100% and see where that road would take me. That is Drewville Patel, and if you've never heard of him, that's okay. It's hard to keep up with the sport on all levels. You need like three or four different subscriptions to watch a sport live, and then you've got to end up on obscure websites to catch live results

sometimes. So forgive me for not paying as much attention to the NCAA Division III level.

I have hard enough time keeping up with Division I results and races. So this episode goes out

to all the Division III listeners after a few people tweeted at me and requested to have Drew on the show, it's happening. I'm Chris Chavez and you're listening

to the Citious Mag podcast on the Cidious Mag Podcasts network is brought to you by the Rambling Runner's new podcast called Road to the

Olympic Trials. The show's on a roll right now. They had two episodes released in the past week

featuring Friend of the Pod, Lou Seraphini, and NAZ elites Kellyn Taylor. Her episode is

awesome. She dives into her training under Coach Ben

Rosario, the build toward her 226 personal best, and she provides a little bit of a preview

of the marathon trials course, which many people are calling one of the most challenging ever.

So here what she has to say about it. I also find her road to the trials particularly

interesting because she was fourth in

2016. So I was like to see how the person who's just one spot out of making an Olympic team

rebounds four years later. Join her on her journey, join Lou on his journey. That's Road to the

Olympic trials presented by The Rambling Runner. Check them out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and Google Podcasts.

I will include a link to those pages in the show notes as well.

My guest for today's episode is Drewvel Patel.

He is a 13-time Division III All-American, a six-time national champion, and a five-time

national team champion out of North Central.

He owns a 1351 5K personal best and a 285010K PR.

So immediately on this episode, I make a fool out of myself by confusing Division 2 and Division

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