National Record Holder, Champion, & 1:48 800m Runner Cole Boone Shares His Secrets Of His Breakout Year
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Dominic Schlueter
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
High school mid-distance sensation Cole Boone joins us today, fresh off two monumental performances in March that have solidified him as a national champion.
Cole, a junior at Pulaski County High School in Dublin, Virginia, has been crushing the 2025 campaign so far. The bar is set high for his senior campaign next fall.
On March 4 at the Virginia High School League Class 3 State Indoor Championships held at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Cole set a new national high school indoor record in the 1,000m with a time of 2:20.14.
Cole then competed in the New Balance Nationals Indoor meet in Boston, where he delivered an impressive 1:48.29 in the 800m to win the championship and claim his first national title as a junior. This is the second-fastest national high school 800m indoor time this year.
Cole has been grinding since middle school, when he ran a 2:10 in the 800m as a 7th grader. He currently runs 25-30 miles a week as a mid-distance guy and has lofty goals for the future.
His current PRs outside of the 800m and 1,000m include:
400m Outdoor: 49.82
1600m Outdoor: 4:07.05
One Mile Outdoor: 4:08.60
3200m Indoor: 9:33.63
In today's conversation, Cole walks me through his breakout year, what went into it, living on a farm, his ambitions for the future, what his training looks like, inside his 1K National Record, his plans for outdoor, and much more. Tap into the Cole Boone Special.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, I live on a farm. I don't know. It's kind of the lifestyle that I've grown up with, |
| 0:04.2 | just being able to know that everything's not going to go okay and you're going to mess up here and there, |
| 0:09.1 | but, you know, trials and tribulations only make you stronger. And if you didn't have them, |
| 0:13.5 | then you're not going to go anywhere. So you have to be able to fail. |
| 0:19.5 | That was Cole Boone today on the Running Effect podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm thrilled to welcome on one of the fastest juniors, not just in the country, but of |
| 0:26.2 | all time onto the podcast today. |
| 0:28.6 | Get inside his training, his mindset, his future ambitions, the whole nine yards. |
| 0:33.4 | Cole brings an unparalleled level of wisdom and insights in today's conversation. |
| 0:38.2 | Shout out his parents because this man can speak, he can speak eloquently for a junior in high |
| 0:42.6 | school. He brings a lot of wisdom to the table that I don't hear, and even a lot of my |
| 0:47.2 | conversations, much less with a high school junior. He's run 220.14 in the 1K, which is a national |
| 0:53.3 | indoor high school national record. |
| 0:55.5 | He won his first national title at the New Balance Indoor National Meet this past March. |
| 1:01.2 | And he's got a lot of big plans for this outdoor season, as well as for the rest of his time in high school and beyond. |
| 1:06.6 | I love this conversation. |
| 1:07.8 | If you guys enjoy it, share with a friend, a teammate, someone who you think would find value and benefit from it. Give us a five-star review as a little cherry on top |
| 1:14.0 | takes five to ten seconds and make sure you are following the podcast wherever you listen |
| 1:18.5 | so that you never miss another episode. Without further ado, enjoy my conversation with |
| 1:23.2 | National Record Holder, National Champion, the man that made the legend, Mr. Cole Boone. |
| 1:30.2 | Mr. Cole Boone, welcome to the running effect podcast how you doing this morning good how are you i'm doing excellent man |
| 1:35.4 | really stoked to have you on the podcast i have to say like i think a year ago me and other people |
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