Cameron Myers

A relatively quiet weekend in track, though there’s still plenty to dig into with Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, and Preet Majithia.
In this week’s episode:

- Preet’s pandemic-era haircut savings

- McKirdy MicrOTQ recap: Kyle paced Thomas Knobbs to a 2:09.24 — the fourth-fastest Canadian of all time — then helped the women’s qualifying group

- The race start had a fascinating start: single-file starts, chip timing

- 14 men and 11 women earn Olympic Trials qualifying standards

- Sound Running 10K

- The 2027 Beijing 10K standard: Why World Athletics still hasn’t announced it?

- Maurie Plant Meet: Lachlan Kennedy beats Gout Gout again

- Claudia Hollingsworth beats world indoor champ Georgia Hunter Bell in the women’s 1500 — Is this the year she announces herself?

- Cameron Myers runs 3:30 and wins by a lot — why wasn’t he at World Indoors?

- Embrace debate: of Hollingsworth, Gout Gout, and Myers: Who has the best shot at Olympic gold in Brisbane?

- The Pure Athletics vs. Star Athletics tension is real and it’s good for the sport

- Josh Kerr and Project 222: 3:42 mile world record attempt at the London Diamond League on July 18th

- What happens if Cole Hocker breaks the record two weeks earlier at Pre-Classic?

- Albert Korir gets a five-year doping ban, Patrick Dever moves to the podium

- Conner Mantz scratches from the Boston Marathon

- Why Kyle is most impressed by Clayton Young’s altitude long run

- Cynthia Erivo will run the London Marathon after performing two shows of a one-woman Dracula the day before

- Harry Styles marathon watch

- Marileidy Paulino runs 2:04 in the 800, Dalilah Muhammad is very much not retired

- What’s coming on the podcast feed

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THE CAM MYERS SPECIAL 

Fresh off breaking the world U20 indoor mile record, Cam Myers, joins the show today amidst the hype of an incredible start to his 2025 campaign. 

Cam, who hails from Australia, became the second-youngest runner in history to break the four-minute barrier in the mile in 2023. He kicked off 2025 by running a 3:53.12 at the Dr. Sander Invitational–taking almost two seconds off the world indoor U20 mile record that was set in 2009. He proceeded to show up to the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston and run a 7:33.12 in the 3,000m, setting an Australian national record. 

Cam continued to blow the doors off of U20 expectations and standards by running an astounding 3:47.48 mile at the iconic Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games on February 8, besting his previous mile record by five seconds while running the fourth-fastest indoor mile in history. 

In addition to his personal bests in the mile and 1500m indoors, he has an outdoor 800m PR of 1:47.11. Cam has notably broken Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s mile, 1500m, and 3,000m age-group records.

With Olympic dreams clearly in his sights, Cam has already secured hardware during the World U20 Championships in 2024, where he won a silver medal in the 1500m in Peru, running a 3:40.60 and just nearly missing gold. 

Cam started training under coach Lee Bobbin as a 10-year-old, and then began training under well-known Australian coach Dick Telford, who has guided the likes of Lisa Martin–a silver medalist in the marathon at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. 

Before committing to running full-time as a 14-year-old, Cam dreamed of playing soccer for Chelsea. He grew up playing striker and loving the sport, before running took over prominence in his life.

In today’s conversation, Cam takes me through his monumental 3:47 mile, what led into this breakthrough performance, what he wants to accomplish in his career one day, his plans for 2025 and becoming the best, how he trains, and so much more.

This conversation was such a treat. Cam is going place. Don’t miss hearing his story before you start to hear his name everywhere. 

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In early 2022 we sat down with James Templeton, the manager to Peter Bol and Joseph Deng, and dived deep into the world of elite athlete management.   Fast forward 16 months and a lot has transpired.  Deng is now the Australian 800m record holder, once again, and JT now looks after a number of Australia's biggest names, other than Bol and Deng, including Cameron Myers and Jye Edwards.   We caught up with James and spent time on a vast array of topics; from Deng's return to form, to the signing of Cameron Myers,to how hard it is to qualify for Australian teams these days, to the impact of super shoes, and much more......

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We have a pretty cool episode this week with Coach, Lee Bobbin.  Lee is the coach of Cameron Myers, who just a few weeks ago broke Ryan Gregson’s U18 Australian 1500m record, clocking 3:40.60.  This time brought Myers to just 0.68 of a second away from becoming the fastest 16-year-old in the history of 1500m running. 

Myers is lining up in Melbourne in a few weeks to have a crack at becoming one of the youngest in history to break the Sub 4 mile.  We hope you enjoy this chat with Lee Bobbin.

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