By Liam Boylan-Pett

As Featured on RunningTimes.com

“One-fifty-four-point … umm … six. Yeah, one-fifty-four-point-six for 800,” Will Leer says, remembering his high school PBs down to the tenth of a second. Even if it takes a little racking of the brain.

It’s easier to remember his PBs now. They’re all pretty fresh in his mind. They happened in the last six months. Leer is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., who now runs for Nike and trains by himself most of the year. He’s living in Southern California but also doing stints at altitude in places like Flagstaff, Ariz. It seems to be working, because he set PBs in the 1500m, 3,000m, and 5,000m in 2013. It really was, as a recent Running Times article declared, “The Year of Leer,” awesome mustache and all.