The Road To Hayward: Lex & Leo Young + Teammate Brayden Seymour On Chasing History & Having Fun In The Process + Lex Speaks Before Setting A HS NR

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today on "The Road To Hayward" are Lex and Leo Young and their teammate and friend Brayden Seymour.

For those unfamiliar with these three, Lex and Leo Young are the fastest high school twins in the world. Over the past four years of high school, they have broken national records, won championships, and forever cemented their legacy as some of the greatest high school runners ever. Their teammate Brayden Seymour has witnessed their greatness unfold and, through training with them, has become a national-class runner, claiming some All-American titles and making a name for himself in this sport. Lex and Leo are committed to run for Stanford University next year, and Brayden is committed to run for Furman University.

Lex and Leo have been on the podcast many times, so we thought it would be fun to change things up a bit and include Brayden, who is a stud himself and has a unique inside look at the success of Lex and Leo. In today's episode, we chronicle their friendship, recent training and racing, beef within the sport, how they're preparing for Nike Outdoor Nationals, and many hilarious topics that left us four laughing.

If you want to hear an inspiring, unique, and fun discussion with three of the top high school runners, this conversation is for you.

+ Lex speaks extensively about his preparation leading into a 5k HS National Record attempt which he ended up successfully doing, running 13:34.96. It is very cool to listen back and hear him call his shot and deliver on it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The Road to Hayward is presented by the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation.
0:05.0	NSAF has put on world-class events for the next generation of athletes for over 30 years now.
0:10.3	Over 400 Olympians earning nearly 200 medals have participated in the NSAF Championship events.
0:17.0	NSAF is presenting the Nike Outdoor National Meet June 15th through 18th at Hayward Field,
0:22.8	which is the greatest track and field stadium on the planet.
0:25.6	To get more info about this world-class meet, visit Nike Outdoor Nationals.com.
0:34.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of The Road to Hayward, which is a short
0:39.2	miniseries that will document and tell the stories of many of the top athletes competing at the Nike Outdoor
0:44.6	National Meet this year. And three of those athletes happen to be Lex and Leo Young and their
0:49.2	teammate and friend, Braden Seymour. For those who aren't familiar with Lex and Leo, they are two of the most accomplished distance runners ever
0:56.4	in the history of high school distance running.
0:58.9	And then Braden, he moved to Newberry Park last year, I want to say,
1:02.3	and he's also a stud himself.
1:04.1	He was an All-American at NXN this past fall slash winner.
1:08.1	And today's conversation was just a ton of fun.
1:10.2	Obviously, having Lex and Leo on
1:12.1	is always a blast, but having Braden on as well was so much fun. And I'm recording this the day
1:17.3	after Lex broke the National High School 5K record that Connor Burns has. He ran 1334.96, if I'm not
1:25.6	mistaken. And it was really cool because Lex actually speaks about his
1:28.9	preparation and actually calls his shot in this episode leading into that 5K race that went down
1:34.4	yesterday where he set the record. And today's conversation is just a very fun laid back
1:38.8	conversation with many laughs along the way. But we also talk about their recent training and
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