FloTrack caught up with Yared Nuguse ahead of the 2026 Oslo Diamond League meeting in his final prep before the big race.<\/p>\n
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Meet you by like 20 seconds We’re already here.<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
We were just, uh- Oh Kai is just out there running still.<\/p>\n
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Okay.<\/p>\n
can you do like nine outs?<\/p>\n
no.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
That’s so bad.<\/p>\n
Everybody.<\/p>\n
I mean, I’ll just do the drills- In here in here, and then- Yes.<\/p>\n
Can you like walk me through what you’re doing as you’re doing it?<\/p>\n
Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
So now I’m about to do s- names.<\/p>\n
side to side arm thing.<\/p>\n
Side shuffle.<\/p>\n
Side shuffle.<\/p>\n
For those, for those who don’t work in a gym or- That’s what we all refer to it as anyways.<\/p>\n
And then I do karaokes because, I don’t know, they’re fun.<\/p>\n
and then I got high knee butt kicks, ’cause, don’t like doing them separately.<\/p>\n
That mic.<\/p>\n
31.<\/p>\n
I lost it again.<\/p>\n
Okay.<\/p>\n
That’s the last aggressive drill, and that’s the end of my routine that I got from college.<\/p>\n
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And then I just kinda do random stuff until I feel like I’m ready to run.<\/p>\n
So- Starting with, reach downs or something.<\/p>\n
Woo.<\/p>\n
And then some quad stretches, ’cause why not?<\/p>\n
How you feeling for tomorrow?<\/p>\n
You feeling good?<\/p>\n
Like, what’s the vibe?<\/p>\n
I guess let’s kinda talk out, talk out things.<\/p>\n
Talk out loud here.<\/p>\n
You know, what are your thoughts?<\/p>\n
Like, this is actually a more realistic- What are going through my head?<\/p>\n
This is a more realistic pre-meet.<\/p>\n
It’s just like silence after all of us for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it is.<\/p>\n
Like, what goes through your head as you do it?<\/p>\n
What do you think about?<\/p>\n
What do you, what do you Take me inside your head a little.<\/p>\n
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I mean, I guess nothing goes through my head during pre-meet, but – As far as the race goes, I’m very excited.<\/p>\n
I think, it’ll be nice to race one more time before I get to go home.<\/p>\n
Feels like I really earned it.<\/p>\n
yeah.<\/p>\n
I mean, the mile’s much better than the 15, so that is nice.<\/p>\n
The best thing about the mile that’s nicer is like starting on the curve, like everyone can’t go as crazy- Yeah fast.<\/p>\n
You know what I mean.<\/p>\n
You’ll see it tomorrow.<\/p>\n
More will be more crowded coming out.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like there’s more fold off the start there.<\/p>\n
Nah.<\/p>\n
No one Like, ’cause I think it happens all at once when we’re going slower versus like the 1500 crash is like everyone at top speed, like 100 meters in- Yeah just like- Yeah.<\/p>\n
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Yeah, it’s a mess.<\/p>\n
I think it’ll, it’ll be, it’ll be great.<\/p>\n
I was gonna say, when I did this at like Melrose a couple years back, I just treat it as like my inner diary monologue.<\/p>\n
Exactly.<\/p>\n
Yeah, exactly.<\/p>\n
But- I bet you talk a lot more than you usually out loud, though.<\/p>\n
You like told the boys you were gonna run like 29, and then you’re like, “Oops, 27.<\/p>\n
Sorry.”<\/p>\n
Oh, no.<\/p>\n
I’m so fit.<\/p>\n
Yeah, yeah, no.<\/p>\n
Everybody was like, “Well, Jared, cool.”<\/p>\n
Jared used to be the pace pirate, and now he’s, now he’s the guy who messes up the paces ’cause he goes too hot.<\/p>\n
Oh, no.<\/p>\n
Slander.<\/p>\n
During the shorter reps, it’s easier for me to be like, “Oh, we’re running like 60.<\/p>\n
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I can do that.”<\/p>\n
Versus like when the rep is like, “Yeah, we’re doing 1K in like 2:27,” I’m like, “That means nothing to me.”<\/p>\n
Like I just, I can’t conceptualize that, so then I just usually start too fast and then slow down, and that’s I always hit it in the end, though.<\/p>\n
I’m gonna get my spikes.<\/p>\n
I didn’t hear back, so I’m gonna check in.<\/p>\n
These are the fancy new light sprays.<\/p>\n
Why do I, why do I feel like this is like the, what’s the, ASMR?<\/p>\n
This is the light spray.<\/p>\n
Okay.<\/p>\n
I’m gonna go out ’cause Kai’s gonna go out now.<\/p>\n
All right.<\/p>\n
I’ll be out there soon.<\/p>\n
Everyone struggles to get them on, but I got really skinny feet, so I don’t have that issue.<\/p>\n
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All right.<\/p>\n
Outside we go.<\/p>\n
Be quick.<\/p>\n
Mostly.<\/p>\n
Let’s just stride, I think.<\/p>\n
Oh.<\/p>\n
Need the pickup.<\/p>\n
And then I’m going to slowly walk back despite the rain, and do a 200 at what I think race pace might be.<\/p>\n
We’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n
Are you guys running like 5K pace?<\/p>\n
Or like- No.<\/p>\n
Okay.<\/p>\n
I’ve got two more strides and then I’m done.<\/p>\n
Ah, just a stride.<\/p>\n
All right.<\/p>\n
Sorry.<\/p>\n
Calling it.<\/p>\n
Let’s see.<\/p>\n
All right.<\/p>\n
Let’s get this going.<\/p>\n
It’s getting worse.<\/p>\n
28.<\/p>\n
Calling it.<\/p>\n
28.1.<\/p>\n
Am I good or am I good?<\/p>\n
Don’t take that out of context.<\/p>\n
And then we’ll just walk back to the 200.<\/p>\n
It was a little windy on that back stretch.<\/p>\n
The second 200 is for visualizing the end of the race, so you can be a little quicker.<\/p>\n
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But you gotta really mentally focus or whatever.<\/p>\n
I don’t know.<\/p>\n
Do what you want.<\/p>\n
All right, that was 26.6, so that was too fast, but it’s okay.<\/p>\n
I’m not doing that many strides.<\/p>\n
It’s too rainy for all that.<\/p>\n
Actually, I’m gonna take refuge for, like, the next 30 seconds.<\/p>\n
I do not blame you.<\/p>\n
Are you done?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Oh, sick.<\/p>\n
I was gonna do, two more hundreds.<\/p>\n
Okay, that’s what I thought.<\/p>\n
I was like, “I think he was padding his run.”<\/p>\n
Okay, that one was slow, ’cause I didn’t know where the hundred was, but that’s okay.<\/p>\n
But yeah, now we have last hundred, best hundred.<\/p>\n
don’t wanna do anything too crazy.<\/p>\n
You know, I gotta save it for the race, but this should be quick.<\/p>\n
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Once again, visualizing that last hundred meters, how much pain you’re gonna be in.<\/p>\n
Embrace suffering or something.<\/p>\n
All right, yay, we’re done.<\/p>\n
All right, guys, come on.<\/p>\n
Four minutes total in the rain.<\/p>\n
That’s nothing.<\/p>\n
Well, that was pretty neat.<\/p>\n
We’ll cool down and then actually be done.<\/p>\n
Wanna jog a mile?<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
Let’s do it.<\/p>\n
Just in here, I’m assuming.<\/p>\n
No, I was gonna go outside, like, just around the track.<\/p>\n
But if you wanna stay in here, we can.<\/p>\n
You gotta experience it, yeah.<\/p>\n
Okay.<\/p>\n
I’ll do at least one lap around, yeah.<\/p>\n
Just gotta make sure I don’t say out of pocket stuff.<\/p>\n
Try this really crazy political take.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
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And that is the real end to the warmup.<\/p>\n
It was good.<\/p>\n
Wow, I can’t believe you convinced him to stay inside.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
For a mile.<\/p>\n
I’m so impressed.<\/p>\n
We picked it up.<\/p>\n
All right.<\/p>\n
Yay.<\/p>\n
Thanks for tuning in.<\/p>\n
Actually, I got for you a happy birthday, belated.<\/p>\n
Oh, thank you.<\/p>\n
what did you do for it?<\/p>\n
And, like, obviously you were traveling on the road.<\/p>\n
How was it?<\/p>\n
Yeah, I mean, it wasn’t, like, awesome.<\/p>\n
I was just flying from Stockholm to, or Rabat to Stockholm, like, from 11 to midnight.<\/p>\n
I did buy these first class tickets, ’cause they were, like, really cheap, so that was nice.<\/p>\n
But it’s like, you know, European first class isn’t the same as, like, American first class, you know?<\/p>\n
So, but the food was honestly stunning.<\/p>\n
The day after, though, I got, like, some matcha, some chill time.<\/p>\n
Just vibed out a little bit.<\/p>\n
So this is Yared Neguse, mic’d up.<\/p>\n