KHC 191 - Tommie Runz

Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

Cameron Hanes

Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Tommie Runz - endurance athlete, podcaster, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker known for his inspiring personal transformation story. A recovering alcoholic, he has been sober since January 2017. He adopted a vegan lifestyle and began running around 2018. He quickly progressed to become a competitive marathoner, achieving a personal best of 2:48 and qualifying for the Boston Marathon. He has completed the World Marathon Majors Six Star challenge in a single season and participated in ultra-endurance events like a solo Speed Project. Follow Tommie: https://www.instagram.com/tommie_runz/ Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cameronrhanes Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameronhanes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camhanes/ Website: https://www.cameronhanes.com Timestamps: 00:00:00 – “Tommie Gunz” to “Tommie Runz” & Alcoholism to Sobriety 00:08:39 – Working for a Vehicle Shipping Company 00:11:41 – Recognizing Alcoholism as a Problem 00:15:45 – Self Employment: Running Influencer Impact & Hosting 2 Podcasts 00:20:00 – The Growth & Diversity of Ultra Running 00:29:33 – Truett & Cam Hanes: Training to Be the Fastest Father Son Running Duo 00:31:27 – Training for Western States, Hills, and Hills 00:36:40 – Dan Green, Cocodona, and Who Inspires Tommie 00:41:51 – Building Momentum for People that Don’t Trail Run 00:53:18 – Tommie’s Running Coach & Training for Boston Marathon 00:54:45 – The Eugene Marathon, Cam’s Golden Tooth, and the Bentley Giveaway 01:04:04 – Tommie’s Marathon Goals & Having a Story 01:10:12 – The Building Blocks to Cam’s Success 01:15:45 – Speed Project Experience & Tommie’s Merch Goals 01:18:38 – Sobriety, Running, and Choosing to Suffer 01:25:20 – Dreaming to Big vs Not Dreaming Enough 01:28:07 – Final Thoughts Thank you to our sponsors: Good Ranchers: https://www.goodranchers.com/ use code CAMERON for $25 off your first order Montana Knife Company: https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ Use code CAM for 10% off LMNT: Visit https://drinklmnt.com/cam for a free sample pack with any purchase Sig Sauer: https://www.sigsauer.com/ use code CAM10 for 10% off optics Grizzly Coolers: https://www.grizzlycoolers.com/ use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 10% your order

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0:00.0	Every step I take I move my truth. Every time they tell me stop I use. Every comment hate that makes my feel, gather up my energy and boom. I hear them talking, saying the way that I move it's so reckless. That is a part of my mind I've been blessed with. Giving my blood so I am relentless. All right, this is a Keep Hammering Collective. I'm with Tommy Runs. Dude, you're here in Eugene. Yeah. This is cool. I know
0:22.3	you've been here before, but I didn't know that. So I'm pumped to sit down with you and this is
0:28.6	great. Thank you. I appreciate, man. Eugene's like a, I was going to say a second home,
0:33.1	but it's like maybe like a fifth or six home, but I it here well you're welcome here um so Tommy
0:39.6	runs is that your like stage name or is that your real name stage name for sure okay
0:44.3	because it's like too perfect it's too good it's too good it was Tommy guns for uh for like a year
0:50.4	really and then I started running and really liking it and figured out that Tommy
0:55.1	runs was available. So we made the switch. What was the guns? Like, lifting? Yeah, so I got sober in
1:01.0	2017 and just needed to find, you know, myself again. And started lifting really like heavy
1:08.5	and six, seven days a week was just lifting and got to this
1:13.6	point where I'm like looking good, feeling good and then changed the name to Tommy Guns and was in the gym heavy.
1:18.7	And then got offered a spot to run the Chicago rock and roll half marathon.
1:24.6	And then kind of fell in love with that process and started running more and my cousin's like
1:29.5	yeah you're losing the guns bro your runs right now were you pretty jacked i think so yeah i think so
1:36.8	like how much did you weigh i think i was i was only like 165 but that's a lot yeah but shred it
1:43.0	yeah yeah yeah yeah and now i can show you a picture yeah yeah and uh so how's the I was only like 165, but that's a lot for me. Yeah, but shred it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1:44.3	And now.
1:44.9	I can show you a picture.
1:45.9	Yeah.
1:46.1	Yeah.
1:46.5	And so how's the, so you switched to running in what year was that?
1:51.4	Running, uh, 2018.
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