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The Running Effect tells the best stories in running—and turns them into insight, inspiration, and tools to help competitive runners become greater.Every week, host Dominic Schlueter sits down with the fastest, smartest, and most inspiring people in the sport—from Olympic medalists to breakthrough athletes—to unpack the stories, lessons, and mindset behind elite performance. Whether you’re chasing a personal best or looking to understand how greatness is built, The Running Effect will make you a deeper fan of the sport—and a better runner.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Running Effect tells the best stories in running, and turns them into insight, inspiration, and tools to help competitive runners become greater. Every week, host Dominic Schlueter sits down with the fastest, smartest, and most inspiring people in the sport, from Olympic medalists to breakthrough athletes, to unpack the stories, lessons, and mindset behind elite performance.
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST is hosted by Dominic Schlueter. The show has published 785 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "“My Mentality Has Always Been Stronger Than My Fitness”: How Yosuke Shibata Ran a 14:20 5K, the Fastest in American High School Cross Country This Fall" (29 October 2026, 44 minutes), "Kilian Jornet: Everest Twice in One Week, a 4-Hour Blackout, and Why He Plans to Race His Whole Life" (28 October 2026, 59 minutes), and "Fitter at 41 Than at 20: How Jeea Founder Trevor Wright Went From Hating Every Mile to Trail Running, Spartan Beasts, and a 50-Pound Drop" (26 October 2026, 71 minutes).
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 63 minutes across 785 episodes.
Booking probability for THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dominic Schlueter hosts THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST, a sports podcast with 785 episodes published.
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Fifteen seconds down with 600 meters to go is not supposed to be a winning position. For South Eugene senior and Duke commit Yosuke Shibata, it was how his undefeated fall began. In this installment of our Fleet Feet x...
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https://go.run-motion.com/?coupon_code=TRE30 Kilian Jornet doesn't look back. Ask the greatest mountain athlete alive which moment defined him and he says: tomorrow. Dominic traces a career that began in a Pyrenees...
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https://jeearecovery.com Trevor Wright swore off running in seventh grade. Recorded in Columbus, this conversation traces how a kid who dreaded his weekly mile-and-a-half PE “fun run” now runs before breakfast by...
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https://launch.jeearecovery.com Gavin Sherry found his future on a borrowed bike. A year ago, the former Conard High School star was still on Stanford’s cross country roster, his college career swallowed by a femoral...
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Nathan Green came to talk, and he didn’t hold back. The 23-year-old Adidas miler swept both U.S. 1,500m titles in 2026, and he joined Dominic to defend those wins against the couch warriors who call them too slow to...
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Klaudia Kazimierska didn't just finish 2026. She owned it.In her first season under Jerry Schumacher, the Polish middle-distance star closed with three straight wins: the Diamond League Final in Brussels in a...
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Salt might be the most overhyped thing in your running bag. Alex Ostberg is back from Chicago, where Charles Hicks became the No. 3 American all time on a record-eligible course, for his monthly breakdown of the last...
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Nobody builds a distance program at Harvard. Alex Gibby did it twice over Alex arrived at Harvard in 2017 and inherited a program that had almost never made nationals, and didn't have a single athlete setting a PR after...
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Natasza Dudek only wanted a PR. She got history instead. Now a junior at Ann Arbor Pioneer and the reigning Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Player of the Year, Natasza joins Dominic midway through her 2026 season...
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The woman who breaks four minutes in the mile has probably already been born. That's the opening claim from Professor Andy Jones, the Exeter physiologist behind Nike's Breaking2 project, and he gives her ten to fifteen...
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After Josh Kerr's mile world record, Danny Mackey had 478 unread texts. He answered about 20 of them. The founding head coach of the Brooks Beasts Track Club joins Dominic at the end of the best season of his career...
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Some coaches chase talent. Todd Witzleben builds it. When Witzleben took over at Manhattan University in June 2025, one regional ranking had the Jaspers 41st out of 42 teams in the Northeast, with six men on the cross...
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Vinny Mauri got drug tested at a Planet Fitness. Five months after his 2:05:54 marathon at Glass City made him the fastest marathon debutant in American history, the self-coached Ohioan returned to the show just days...
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Four hundred straight dual meet wins don't happen by accident. Sean McCafferty, entering his tenth year as head cross country coach at Christian Brothers Academy (CBA) in Lincroft, New Jersey, joins Dominic to unpack...
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Ethan Strand is a national champion who still believes he finished second. He found out Jonah Koech had been busted for doping in the middle of a treadmill run, when Parker Wolfe tapped him on the shoulder, and his...
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Aleksander Lingauer is stepping away from running. He says it out loud here for the first time. This one was recorded in person in Columbus, the fourth time he and Dominic have sat down together and the first time with...
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Marcelo Mantecon has spent his whole career as the young guy. Not anymore. The Belen Jesuit senior joins Dominic for the next episode of our Fleet Feet series leading into the Brooks Cross Country National...
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Behind Graham Blanks' 12:47 5K & 7:27 3K: 6:00min Easy Days, Training Alone & Racing Jakob Ingebrigtsen Graham Blanks can tell you exactly what he did wrong in every race he ran this year. Monaco is the exception, and...
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Two guys named Dom, one goal, two completely opposite ways of getting there. Dom Fusco returns to the show for the first time since March 2023, and this one isn't about his cardiac arrest—it's about the question...
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Dominic sits down with Carter Cutting, Isaac Hedengren and Tayvon Kitchen a day after the Cougars opened their season in Terre Haute. It starts as a debate—Jakob versus Kerr; whether Hawker belongs in that tier; whether...
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