Nick Symmonds orders bionic legs off amazon and attempts to break Hicham El Guerruouj's mile WR

edumacation rulez wrote:

He's so washed up and it's sad that he's competition attention on youtube with people that play video games and women that do ASMR.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

A lot of sad ? in that video.

Sprintgeezer wrote: Not funny, not interesting, not enjoyable—just juvenile, and lame.

Thought he was ok when I thought he would train seriously for an impossible 100m goal, but realized the pathos as it went on.

Sorry, Nick. This is not working for you.

As was said: sad.

Sheesh, just when you thought it was safe to have fun again, the Sad Police show up!

Sick Nymmonds wrote:

fact checker 642572498 wrote:

And it's working, his gum is selling well.

You should check your facts Mr Checker. Run Gum is not selling crap. As with most running related things, it's suffering. He really needs the extra cash from his new IG gig and his YouTube channel. You know, the one he was supposed to give all the ad revenue away for.

The worst part of his video is that he didn't tear both ACLs doing that stupid stunt. Now that would have been entertaining.

He got Run Gum in Target. That's pretty impressive.

His video has nearly 200k views in 3 days. He has a ton of videos with over 1 million views. He's written books. He's having fun and making good money doing things he loves.

Compared to other former pro runners, he's doing damn well for himself.

not to derail the thread, but who thinks that record is clean?

Trying so hard to be an influencer. Not succeeding.

remind me to kill myself when i first use the word influencer.

Cool Colorado Rain wrote:

Trying so hard to be an influencer. Not succeeding.

Influencers are people who take money to promote random products.

I think symmonds only promotes his own gum. Everything else is mindless entertainment.

So he isnt trying to be an influencer, he is trying to be entertaining.

plant curious wrote:

Cool Colorado Rain wrote:

Trying so hard to be an influencer. Not succeeding.

Influencers are people who take money to promote random products.

I think symmonds only promotes his own gum. Everything else is mindless entertainment.

So he isnt trying to be an influencer, he is trying to be entertaining.

If being wrong was a sport you would be champion. You clearly missed his partnership with Gymshark and then there was this embarrassing situation.

It's so very sad

Dude. What is wrong with you.

The negativity on this thread is ridiculous. Nick is making entertaining videos. Seems to be having fun. And generally seems like a nice guy.

This holier than thou attitude on this board really makes me sad sometimes. And the straight up attacking on this thread. My god. Take a look at your lives people. To be so directly negative about this is really uncalled for. Do you really wanna be this negative about, geesh, anything? It's such a bad state to be in. To come onto a running forum to be a total jerk. I really hope you all aren't this way in your normal lives.

We should be supporting our fellow and former athletes. Nick ran a 142 for Christ's sake. He's one of the best us 800m runners ever. Have some fricken respect man

Haha. Jealous hobbyjoggers who can't stomach the fact that Nick Symmonds is a legend who achieved 1000 times more than they ever did. Remind me what time every else ran in their olympic finals? He's an entertaining and down to Earth guy, not constantly bragging about his achievements like some. I for one enjoyed the video. Good for you, Nick. Keep at it with the entertaining content!

Strangely what made me cringe was when he mentioned his 3:56 PR and said he'd always wanted to run 3:42. Call me skeptical.

Renewed Marathoner wrote:

Dude. What is wrong with you.

The negativity on this thread is ridiculous. Nick is making entertaining videos. Seems to be having fun. And generally seems like a nice guy.

This holier than thou attitude on this board really makes me sad sometimes. And the straight up attacking on this thread. My god. Take a look at your lives people. To be so directly negative about this is really uncalled for. Do you really wanna be this negative about, geesh, anything? It's such a bad state to be in. To come onto a running forum to be a total jerk. I really hope you all aren't this way in your normal lives.

We should be supporting our fellow and former athletes. Nick ran a 142 for Christ's sake. He's one of the best us 800m runners ever. Have some fricken respect man

I resent those who are willing to act stupid for money. I have a distaste for gleefully jumping for the lowest common denominator. Who do you prefer, Tom Hanks or Lil Dicky?

That was entertaining! I'm glad he didn't actually get hurt bad. Crazy stuff!

Those stilt blades aren't suited to running fast or going around curves. I'd guess that a much shorter blade customized for the individual could take a 6 minute miler down to sub 5 with only a few weeks training. Taking a 4:00 miler to 3:45 might also be possible. It would be easier on a straight line course. If you watch old races with Oscar P, he was breathtakingly fast once he came out of the last turn.

In his prime, Oscar P could have probably run 100m in 10.0 with a long straight line flying start.

Here's a cool video of Alan Cardoso beating Oscar P in the 2012 Paralympics. Counting the frames in the video, Cardoso covers the last 100m in about 9.6-9.7 seconds. With a similar state of the art blades attached to shoes, a world-class miler could probably run maybe 10 seconds faster.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/s0vAQOKz/

Tom Hanks is literally famous because he acted stupid for money - did you ever see him in Forrest Gump?

Nick's a riot. And it's also a riot to read any negative comments. As always, haters gonna hate. Nick knows this, and he keeps coming back, so the "in your fact" aspect is part of the enjoyment for me - knowing that every new video by Nick is going to cause churning of stomachs among the Negative Nellies out there. And in this period where TP is scarce, that's amusing.

Thanks, Nick, and keep entertaining us, please!

I've been back and forth on him but he is highly ambitious in what he does and I'd rather have him, with his professional running background, doing things like this than some of the other more 'famous' youtube 'runners'.

Just Some Jogger wrote:

. Remind me what time every else ran in their olympic finals?

Well, i know for sure, I did not medal.....just like Nick

damn they're spensive. but still nothing like the hi-tec gear the murderbladesman runs in