How Setbacks Fueled Jane Hedengren: Stories From Winning NXN, Running A HS Girls National Record In The 5k (15:50), And Exclusive Stories Of How She Handled Setback After Setback To Still Win NXN

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The NXN Champion returns to the podcast today!

Last month, Jane won NXN in dominant fashion, running a course record time of 16:32 in Portland, Oregon. She won by over 40-seconds in muddy, rainy, cold conditions.

Two weeks earlier, she recorded the fastest 5K ever in high school girls XC, running a 15:50 in the NXR Southwest race this past November.

She's only the second girl to break 16 on a XC course.

The Timpview senior is headed to BYU next season.

She has PRs of 9:45.44 in the 3200, 4:35.69 in the mile, 4:17 in the 1500, and 2:07.85 in the 800, winning 2 state titles and 1 national title.

Her mom, Sarah, ran in high school. Her dad, John Hedengren, ran in high school and was an All American runner at BYU. Her brother Isaac currently runs for BYU.

In today's conversation, Jane takes me through her 2024 XC season and shares many of the setbacks she experienced for the first publically in today's conversation. She walks through how she maintained self-belief through it all and exclusiveinsights on her training, mindset, and more from her 2024 season.

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0:00.0	Some of the guys I trained with, they are absolutely amazing. Just seeing them, it's very inspiring because I can stick with them in workouts.
0:07.1	But, yeah, we got to see the guys race before our girls' championship race. And I saw them running in the low 1550s.
0:14.2	And so I said, I want to do that too. I can't, why not? Why not me?
0:18.1	Like, I stick with them in workouts. So, yeah, that's, I think, an inspiring thing about training with guys is sometimes they can show you a little bit about what is possible for you when you didn't think it was possible.
0:35.1	That was Jane Hedegren today on the Running Effect podcast. I'm your host, Dominic Schleader,
0:39.5	and I'm so thrilled you've clicked on today's episode and conversation, because if you follow
0:44.4	the sport of running in specifically high school running, and specifically female high school
0:48.6	running, Jane had a dominant cross-country season. Jane won NXN in one of the most stacked
0:54.0	fields of all time by over
0:55.5	40 seconds, which was remarkable to hear. And two weeks previous at the NXR regional meet, she ran a
1:01.9	1550 in the 5K, which was the fastest 5K ever in a high school girls cross-country race. She holds
1:09.8	PRs of 945-44 in the 3200, 435.69 in the
1:14.1	mile, 417 in the 1500 and 207.85. In the 800, she's won two state titles and one national title
1:21.3	that NXN1, as I just mentioned. But the cool thing about her story in today's conversation
1:26.0	specifically is that if you followed
1:27.8	it, you would think that she had the perfect linear path to the national championship and to a time like 1550.
1:33.0	But as this conversation outlines in details, Jane actually had quite a few setbacks,
1:37.5	which she goes into detail in this conversation.
1:39.8	And I really think it provides a lot of good insight as well as comfort if you're going through a setback on on how to keep belief in your dreams as well as just the ways to go about setbacks
1:50.4	both physically and more so mentally.
1:52.3	I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with Jane.
1:54.3	I always enjoy my conversations with her.
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