How To Outwork Talent & Other Secrets Of The Greats: The Yaseen Abdalla Blueprint for Greatness

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Sports, Running

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Yaseen Abdalla’s story is one of adaptation and ambition.

He’s a runner who has thrived across programs, distances, and continents, representing Sudan on the international stage while redefining what a new-generation distance athlete can be.

At the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Abdalla placed 21st in the marathon (2:13:32), continuing a remarkable ascent that began a year after his Olympic debut in Paris, where he set a Sudanese national record of 2:11:41.

Known for his blend of speed and endurance, Abdalla’s range is staggering. His personal records include a 3:55.31 mile in 2025, 7:34.17 in the 3,000m in 2024, 13:09.99 in the 5,000m in 2025, and that 2:11:41 marathon.

Those numbers speak to a rare physiology: miler-level leg speed married to marathon efficiency.

His rise has been anything but conventional. From Lanham, Maryland and growing up in Texas, Abdalla ran collegiately for Texas, where he anchored the Longhorns’ 2022 NCAA champion distance medley relay, before transferring to Tennessee and later Arkansas, where he finished fourth at the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Championships. That same winter, he set Sudanese indoor records at 3,000m and 5,000m at the Boston University meets.

Competing internationally for Sudan and a Bandit Running–supported athlete, Abdalla has his sights set on breaking the 2:10 barrier. His current training maintains track sharpness (strides/speed) alongside marathon preparation.

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0:00.0	You know, Gary Vee has a quote, anybody, somebody.
0:02.3	Like, this girl comes up, I want to be somebody someday.
0:04.4	He says you're already somebody.
0:05.6	I disagree.
0:06.4	I disagree.
0:07.0	In the world we live in, if you want to succeed, that's not the paradigm. You're not somebody until you can do something. The truth is anybody could be somebody, and you should proceed like that. But while you're lazy, you don't have the discipline, you don't have the skills, you don't have the intelligence or the athleticism.
0:18.7	It might help to think in extremes, because you're here.
0:20.7	This is the other extreme.
0:21.9	Yeah, you need to be here.
0:23.9	Thinking the extreme's going to help you. you don't have the intelligence or the athleticism. It might help to think in extremes because you're here. This is the other extreme.
0:21.9	Yeah, you need to be here.
0:23.9	Thinking of the extreme is going to help you.
0:29.7	Ladies and gentlemen, that was Yassine Abdallah back today on the Running Effect podcast.
0:34.0	And today's conversation was remarkable, extraordinary.
0:36.9	It's going to equip you with the tools
0:38.6	to take your running to the next level i promise you that i'm going to keep this intro remarkably
0:43.2	short way shorter than i normally do them if you don't know who you seen is either google him
0:47.2	or better get scroll down read the show notes we've got a lengthy history of who he is what he's done
0:52.2	in this sport my one request before hopping into this share the podcast a friend. That is the easiest way in which podcasts can grow, pour my heart and my soul into the running effect. I wanted to have deep, meaningful impact in the running world and in the world at large. And it's conversations like the one I had today with Yacine that I truly believe can have that sort of impact. So please share this podcast
1:11.1	that would make my world. Subscribe, follow, five-star review, all that fun stuff. Without further
1:15.5	ado, enjoy this conversation with legitimately the man the myth to legend, Yassine
1:19.8	Abdullah. Ladies and gentlemen, he's done fighting me. He's back on the podcast. The man of the hour, you know him, you love him. He's streaming every night at this point. He's dropping nuggets of wisdom. Maybe drop the biggest banger of all time yesterday on YouTube. Meanwhile, he's still reping his home country on the World Championship stage, peeing in blood for three days after, and living the dream
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