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The Training Shift That Turned a Burned-Out Top Recruit Into an NCAA Champion
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The Training Shift That Turned a Burned-Out Top Recruit Into an NCAA Champion
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Most people spend years chasing a record. Jane Hedengren did it on her first try.
On April 3rd at the Stanford Invitational, BYU freshman Jane Hedengren stepped onto the track for her first-ever collegiate outdoor race and ran 30:46.80, the fastest collegiate 10,000m in NCAA history. She broke Parker Valby's record by nearly four seconds.
That's who TRE is sitting down with this week.
But this episode isn't really about the record. It's about what it takes to perform at that level before you've had time to be afraid of it. Jane is 19 years old, the daughter of an All-American runner, competing for BYU under head coach Diljeet Taylor—and she is doing things in her freshman year that most distance runners never do in a career. Two NCAA indoor titles. The indoor 5,000m record. And now this.
The numbers are already legendary.
What this conversation goes after is everything behind them: the race tactics, the mindset between back-to-back NCAA gold medals, the training system that built her, and the question that’s been nagging many in the industry: does she let herself think about the 2028 Olympics?
TRE does. And you will too by the end of this one.
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