Final Surge Podcast

When people were projecting the winners of the Californian International Marathon, which served this year as the USATF Marathon Championship Race, Brogan Austin was not the most mentioned name. Not even close. After his win the message boards lit up, who is this guy, he must be a doper. Turns out he is not a doper but another Tom 'Tinman' Schwartz trained athlete who has been working hard for his moment. And we caught up with him to talk about his win. Background Dad ran to lose weight and would run with him as young as 5 years old 1-mile route would run and kept running Tried football in 7-8th grade and was too small Made varsity as Freshman in high school and progressed from there Senior year took on another coach and went from 30 to 70 miles a week Ran at Drake but overtrained by working more on side After college ran but cut way back Tinman connection Saw success the Tinmen Elite crew were having and wanted to start working with Tom Started working with Tom in July 2018 Tom proved you don't need to out