Drew Hunter After Finishing 4th At The 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials 10,000m Final
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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“That’s what I was telling myself the whole time. I was just so committed to racing as hard as I can, and I was just like, ‘I think I can compete with those guys.’ I had that mindset the whole race. I was like, ‘I don't care if I get fourth, I don't even care if I get second or third and don't get to go.’ It was about conquering the disbelief that I've had the last few years that I could compete with those guys. So that was the plan.”
Drew Hunter, 4th place finisher in the U.S. Olympic Trials 10,000m final, reflects on his performance last night, shares about the support he’s received since racing, what he’s learned since becoming a dad, and gives a few updates on Tinman Elite. Hear more from Drew Hunter in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Guest: Drew Hunter | @drewhunter00 on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | All right we are back. |
| 0:05.0 | See us mag live from Eugene, Oregon and we are joined now by last night's fourth place finisher in the U.S US 10,000 meter final Drew Hunter with one of the gutiest performances we saw yesterday |
| 0:19.8 | How did you sleep last night like I did you sleep last night? Did you sleep last night? |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | Not much. |
| 0:25.0 | I think I went to bed at like 2.30, something like that. |
| 0:28.0 | I put on Dune at one point. |
| 0:30.0 | I was like, kind of amped, so you know? |
| 0:32.0 | I wanted to hear some beo, we on, you know, I wanted to hear some beo, weo, weo, and really get going. |
| 0:35.4 | You wanted to get some real throat singing. |
| 0:37.1 | Yes, exactly, yeah. |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah. Yeah, people are walking by your room, they're like, oh man, it's getting weird in there. |
| 0:44.0 | Exactly, yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | Overall, you're proud of that race. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, absolutely, yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | I, I mean, it was like as anyone knows who follows the sport close it was it would have |
| 0:56.9 | been a 1% chance of me you know running 2659 getting top 3 or running fast |
| 1:01.9 | enough to be in the world rank. I mean this is only |
| 1:03.5 | my second 10k ever so I just got into the world ranking. I pulled out like the |
| 1:07.1 | road to Paris and obviously like you weren't on there but I was like |
| 1:09.7 | started I was sitting next to Mitch and we were like crunching numbers and I was like how fast does this race need to be for Drew to make it and it was like there it wasn't just you a lot of the guys in that front pack like realistically didn't have as good odds to make the Olympic team, |
| 1:23.2 | but we're just sticking their noses in it |
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