Final Surge Podcast

Welcome to episode 162 of the Final Surge Podcast. Every spring the track world watches as high school boys chase the elusive sub-4 minute mile club. This year with the quarantine lockdown that chase looked more elusive than ever. In late May a group of elite runners got together for the Quarantine Clasico. In that race Leo Daschbach unleashed a 56 second last 400 to become the 11th American high school boy to break 4. We talk to Leo's coach Dave Montgomery about his career and that race. 1:10 How did you get started in running? 3:36 Leo ran a 4:44 1600 which is good for a Freshman, but not what points to a sub-4 miler someday. 5:54 With his interactions with other kids Leo seems like such a good kid 6:42 Did he run before he was a Freshman or just soccer? 8:14 Was it the Sophmore year that you really saw the potential? 11:25 Some kids are great at the 800 and some are great at the 5k, not many have the range he does. Is that something you try to develop? 12:30 He had a great cross country seas