Ep. 110 - NXN Champion Charlie Vause | Rock Bottom To National Champion

The Sunday Shakeout

Ladies and Gentlemen…

Today on the podcast is guy who won it all, a national champion, Charlie Vause, your 2024 Boys NXN Champion.

Last weekend, Charlie Vause won the Nike Cross Nationals Meet in a time of 15:28 in one of the most treacherous races in meet history. Previous to NXN, Charlie didn’t even win his state meet, nor his NXR, yet he pulled it all off.

Learn how in today’s show.

Today, I also have a very special co-host with me on the show, Jean Claude. Jean is the owner of Startline Running on Instagram, who does interviews with the best cross country and track and field athletes in the State of Washington, making amazing and genuine content. Jean is the future of media in the sport of running and today that got put on full display.

We dive into Charlies perspective on what happened at NXN, how his faith is so intertwined with his journey in running, his transformational journey from finishing 14th at NXR last year to winning NXN this year, what it meant for him to go rock bottom after his junior track season and how he came back, what it means to embrace the underdog mentality, and much more.

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Learn about how he did it.

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