Nick Symmonds runs 1:24 half

Symmonds is back baby!!!

I can run faster than that and all I do is bang women from the local bar and play poker and video games.

I won my last half in the same time!

I'm almost 50 with a 2:01 lifetime 800 best.

Pretty girls centrefold wrote:

I can run faster than that and all I do is bang women from the local bar and play poker and video games.

Forgot to mention while making 300k a year. #thanks Stewie

You mean to tell me his 800 speed didn't carry over to the half-marathon? EVERYTHING I KNEW ABOUT RUNNING IS A LIE!

Did he look relaxed?

Why even bother posting about a 1:24 half?

He never liked running and only did it to facilitate his business interests.

Don't most guys of his ability and much less ability, for that matter, run 20 milers at that pace or faster routinely in their training? I know I did a quite a bunch when I was in HS and college, and I pretty much sucked.

CANT BE DONE wrote:

You mean to tell me his 800 speed didn't carry over to the half-marathon? EVERYTHING I KNEW ABOUT RUNNING IS A LIE!

No, but it carries better than that.

He is one of the sprint 800 guys. His reach is at best 1500.

Moo Goo wrote:

He is one of the sprint 800 guys. His reach is at best 1500.

I appreciate and respect Simmons skill and career but he is slow at 400.

I ran a faster half when I was 12 years old and like 4'9". That woulda been awesome beating him at that age!

Is it me or does nick look like a decent runner for the first time ever in this picture?

Jayyyy wrote:

https://twitter.com/NickSymmonds/status/919245659298918400

He's such a bum.

For those criticizing his time, he won by 5 1/2 minutes and 9 minutes ahead of 3rd (1st woman) at an event with only a couple of hundred finishers so I don't think that he was going all out. Who knows how fast he really could have run?

This guy is supposedly a 3:56 miler. Now at 1:24? Dudes off the juice now.

1:24 half is that actually running?

Long course? Did he run 1-3 miles to far.

I run that hung over and smiling every Sunday.

Big fan of Symmonds' career, loved watching him race. it's clear what he's trying to do: embrace hobby jogger life to reach a broader market for his business outside of the hardcore track fans. He's not going hard on that 1:24 half, but it's just fast enough to be respectable and relatable to road warriors. His goal for the marathon is the ever-elusive (to the masses) SUB 3!

Why criticize??? wrote:

For those criticizing his time, he won by 5 1/2 minutes and 9 minutes ahead of 3rd (1st woman) at an event with only a couple of hundred finishers so I don't think that he was going all out. Who knows how fast he really could have run?

Probably not that fast. He's gone full hobbyjogger