Episode 415: Erik Sowinski – Former American Record Holder & World Indoor Bronze Medalist; the Long Game in the 800
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Erik Sowinski is 3-time USA Champion and a 2016 World Indoor Bronze Medalist in the 800m. He also competed at the 2015 World Championships. Erik ran for the University of Iowa and is an 800m runner. He was previously sponsored by Nike but is now running unsponsored.
Erik is well known for pacing some big races and has paced 2 world records. The first was with Yomif Kejelcha when he broke the world record in the indoor mile. The second time was with Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s indoor 1500m world record.
He is the former American Record holder in the indoor 600m and that is a really fun story that he tells in this episode!
Photo credit: Matt Flynn Parker (@MattFlynnParker)
What we talked about:
5:00- Coming off of the end of his track season
8:40- How he feels about aging in the sport
10:00- Sports teams that he is a fan of
12:15- Ideas to grow the sport of track and field
15:30- What’s next in his career
21:00- What has changed over the years that he has run pro
25:05- Advice to anyone not being recruited either for college or professional running
28:05- Erik’s basketball career
29:00- Erik’s coach
30:40- Running the American record in the 600m
36:20- His experience with pacing races
41:20- What is next for Erik after professional running
44:25- Staying injury free
47:50- Going sub 1:50 200 times in the 800m
54:05- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Heim. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host Lindsay and I am so grateful you are here today. |
| 0:27.8 | I want to give you a heads up. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm doing some post Chicago Marathon interviews. |
| 0:32.2 | Gonna spit those out one right after the other probably next week. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm really excited about that. |
| 0:38.7 | If you want to hear a pre interview with the new American record holder in the marathon |
| 0:44.5 | Emily Sisson, I talked to Emily before the Chicago Marathon over on relay. |
| 0:50.4 | So if you want to be a part of the relay community, you can just go to patreon.com slash |
| 0:54.9 | relay. |
| 0:55.9 | And that interview there and also we just posted a free New York City Marathon interview |
| 1:01.6 | with Emma Bates over there. |
| 1:03.8 | Lots of great stuff going on. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm actually today recording an episode with Mike Co and Cara Goucher. |
| 1:13.0 | Just all things Chicago Marathon are experiencing there for the weekend. |
| 1:18.4 | Spectating Mike Ran Cara was a spectator of a major marathon for the first time and |
| 1:25.1 | we're going to break that down. |
| 1:26.6 | That'll be live now when you're listening to this because I'm recording this on Wednesday |
| 1:29.8 | and this episode is airing on Friday. |
| 1:32.7 | Really excited about all the great content over on relay. |
| 1:35.6 | Just go to patreon.com slash relay. |
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