The Hidden Blueprint of a Champion: Drew Bosley on Training, Coming Back From Adversity & Making His Dreams Come True By Going Pro With Nike

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Undertrain now, dominate later.

That philosophy–his dad’s choice to undertrain him in high school–turned a patient Wisconsin high schooler named Drew Bosley into one of the NCAA’s fiercest finishers.

At Northern Arizona University, Bosley became an NCAA cross country podium finisher, broke the collegiate indoor 3000m record in 7:36.42 (which has since been broken), and stacked All-American honors across multiple distances.

Along the way, he clocked personal bests of 3:39.32 in the 1500m, 3:59.34 in the mile, 13:13.26 indoors and 13:17.06 outdoors for 5000m, and a blazing 27:53.48 for 10,000m–times that placed him among the nation’s elite.

His journey hasn’t been without turbulence.

A quiet 2024 season tested his patience and resolve, but the comeback was worth the wait. Bosley stormed back in April 2025 with a 27:53.48 personal best at the Stanford Invitational and later placed 20th in the 10,000m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Then he held his own against America’s best, placing seventh in the 10,000m at the USATF Outdoor Championship in Eugene.

Now, Bosley is stepping onto the professional stage, signing with Nike’s Swoosh Track Club in Flagstaff under coach Mike Smith.

Patience is a strange weapon in distance running. Drew Bosley turned it into a superpower.

In today's conversation, Drew takes me through his adversity over the past few years, how he overcame it, the dream of signing with NIKE, his plans for his pro-career, lessons from being a part of NAU's domination, learning Bob Dylan on the guitar, and so much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Be the best version of myself that I can be, try my best all the time, work hard, be a good teammate.
0:06.0	In competitions, be an absolute fucking maniac and just be a killer on the track, just be so, so competitive.
0:15.0	That would be a success.
0:17.0	At the end of my career I look back, all these races, I'm just like doing my absolute
0:21.7	best, being as competitive as I could be, knowing that I put all the preparation that I could
0:27.4	into those. Yeah, I think it's just about doing your absolute best. And that's the measure for success.
0:38.5	Ladies and gentlemen, that's Drew Bosley, back on the Running Effect podcast today.
0:42.3	I had the privilege of sitting down with Drew close to three years ago as we talk about
0:46.6	at the beginning of this conversation right after he had placed third at the NCAA cross-country
0:51.3	championships behind Charles Hicks and his teammate at the time,
0:54.6	Nico Young.
0:55.9	He also at that time, I think I'd ran 13, 13 in the 5K.
0:59.5	And so we flipped forward a bunch of pages three years later
1:03.2	and we talk about a lot of the adversity he's faced then,
1:06.1	how he's continued to get back up and up and up again
1:10.0	after having his face bashed into the concrete
1:12.3	and why he decided to continue to pursue the sport despite these setbacks, despite these
1:17.5	adversities.
1:18.5	Drew recently graduated from Northern Arizona University based in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he
1:23.1	was an NCAA champion on the team side, NCAA record holder at one point in the 3K running 736,
1:29.7	and just an overall stud who was pushing forward the sport through his performances,
1:33.2	both on the grass and on the track.
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