Inside How Ethan Strand Ran 7:30 In The 3k & 3:48 In The Mile + How He Is Preparing To Win NCAA Titles & Cement His Name Among The Greats | An Exclusive Interview Before The 2025 NCAA Championships
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Record-setting Tar Heels superstar Ethan Strand returns to the show today as he gears up for the Indoor Track and Field Championships this March in Virginia.
The year 2025 has been good to this mid-distance star, as he ran a remarkable 3:48.32 indoor mile in Boston on February 1. This performance cemented Ethan as the fastest indoor miler in NCAA history while also positioning himself as the third-fastest indoor mile runner ever.
This rising legend also owns the NCAA record in the 3,000m; he ran 7:30.15 in Boston at the end of 2024, famously out-kicking his similarly-stellar teammate, Parker Wolfe. Ethan also ran his first-ever indoor 5k and won in impressive fashionwith a time of 13:26.60 at the ACC Indoor Championships in March.
Prior to entering the conversation for being on the pantheon of the greatest NCAA runners ever, Ethan attended Vestavia Hills High in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was a two-time Alabama Gatorade Cross Country Player of the Year winner (2019 and 2020).
Ethan comes from coaching parents, as his father, Scott, is a former coach on the Alabama men’s track team, and his mother, Lori, was a cross-country coach at Samford University.
In today’s conversation, Ethan walks me through his past few months of performances including two NCAA records and winning the ACC 5k, we discuss XC strength, why things have clicked recently for him, the inside scoop on the UNC DMR, his goals going into Nationals, and his long-term vision for outdoors.
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| 0:59.5 | Outside of like meddling at a world championships or in Olympics, like the only other thing |
| 1:05.9 | that has been in the back of my mind forever since I started running was winning an NCAA title. |
| 1:14.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, he's back. You know him. You love him. Mr. Ethan Strand returns to the |
| 1:19.2 | podcast today ahead of his NCAA indoor championships campaign this upcoming weekend. And since I last |
| 1:26.2 | had Ethan on the podcast after his cross-country |
| 1:28.3 | season, he's been on an absolute terror setting two collegiate records, one in the indoor mile |
| 1:33.6 | running 348.32 in Boston on February 1st. And a second that happened before that where he ran |
| 1:39.9 | 730.15 in the 3K, which was a remarkable performance. He's also won an ACC title in the 5K |
| 1:47.8 | running 1326.60, where he closed that race in remarkable fashion, made it look way too easy. Ethan |
| 1:54.6 | shares insights from each of these races as well as insights from his career as a whole, why he feels |
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