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Jared Ward: Lessons From a Legend

Author
Peter Bromka, Lindsey Hein, and Matt Chittim
Published
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Episode Link
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roadtothetrials/episodes/Jared-Ward-Lessons-From-a-Legend-e37l82t

Road to the Trials welcomes Olympian Jared Ward, fresh off a year in the UK completing an MBA, for a focused conversation on sustainable high-performance training and mindset. Jared explains how he’s reframed workouts as stimulus for long-term adaptation, what he learned from the 2016 Trials and sixth place in Rio, and why he’s still chasing meaningful goals while balancing family life and health.

Topics include: returning to Utah’s training group and coach Ed “Easy E” Eyestone, managing Hashimoto’s, the “probability bubbles” approach from 2016, a Boston PR built partly on the treadmill, a Hobble Creek cattle-tempo tale, thoughts on 2016 auto-qualifiers for 2028, and a fall tune-up at the Philadelphia Half.


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