Nick Symmonds sets a new world record in an event that may shock you....

Apperently John Adams is still alive and in the comment section he said:

"This is so sad Mr.Nick Symmonds. You used to be so successful on the Collegiate and Olympic level, you're 35 years old at a perfect age to be competitive (Kipchoge is 34) and you're completely out of it. Selling out to the mainstream media with clickbait and running 100m runs, this is so sad watching your channel, all I see is a cop out and someone going through a midlife crisis because you dont think you can top your previous achievements. You gave up on mid distance running and are out of shape. You're trying so hard to market yourself as a runner for Rungum by running the absolutely smallest distance 100m and not challenging yourself. You have to be honest with yourself, I was a big fan of you when you were at your peak on the olympic and collegiate stage but this is painful to watch now. I wish you the best

~ John Adams"

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Suck it, Max Willcocks.

For God's sake Nick, lose some weight and get back to distance running. You could use your great 800m speed in the marathon after building up a lot of miles.

Hmmm is it too early to say Nick has jumped the shark ??

Nick is the William Shatner of running.

Next week, Nick is going for the world record in the attention seeking, douch bag mile. Then, we will try sell his fans some energy gum the flavor of his own cumm from Andy Wheating’s back.

Hi LetsRun turds!

What's next? Going after treadmill world records? Chasing ultra-distance track records?

Can't the man just have a quirky hobby in his retirement? If they bother you, you do not have to watch the videos. Nick is a normal person who did extraordinary things on the track. He is now retired. Normal people are allowed to have quirky hobbies when they retire.

20 yrs ago, the thing to do with your quirky hobby was pester the neighbors or tell your friends about it. Now, there is this communal pressure and compulsion to document everything. Thus, Mr. Symmonds's hobby videos end up on YouTube.

One of the previous posters had a point in that, given that Mr. Symmonds is chasing offbeat WRs, you can tell that he is a driven man who wants new goals to hunt. The point that poster missed, however, is that neither Nick nor any other person is required to choose goals that you find admirable.

N. wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab_GbBxoSHk

My dad is 86 and hasn’t exercised in at least 40 years. The other day he was gardening and a swarm of bees ? ? ? went after him . When he made a run for it he looked exactly like Nick Symmonds in this video !!

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Hmmm is it too early to say Nick has jumped the shark ??

There are few things I enjoy more than a jump the shark debate.

I am old enough to remember the original JTS website. You used to be able vote for, and even suggest, when a show jumped. A classic JTS meme/trope was a show jumped when Ted McGinley joined the cast. I thought Urban Dictionary had a good definition that is applicable to Nick. JTS is when a show "reaches a point at which far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality."

In the Nick Symmonds show...Nick himself is truly McGinley-esque. No one can deny how great he was between 2008 -2013. Since that peak, there are several JTS moments for the guy which can be characterized as "far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality." If this was the original JTS website, we'd be voting on things like:

- Nick runs a beer mile

- Nick fails to complete any obstacles in Ninja Warrior

- Nick runs a marathon

- Nick runs 100m

- Nick runs 100m in snow boots

- Nick runs 100m in 1 snowboot, 1 ski

- Nick run 10m backwards in skis

It is only a matter of time before he long jumps over a sand shark.

Probably the 2nnd person to try it.

Funny thing is that he was too injured to train at the tail end of his career. Now he’s able to sprint in snow boots.

so now this twat is reduced to geek tricks ( and posting it himself)

This is what happens when you have no life... Nick, get one.

Expired shelf life wrote:

Funny thing is that he was too injured to train at the tail end of his career. Now he’s able to sprint in snow boots.

???, makes me wonder, was it a secret doping ban?

Last thing I say on the subject : my brother-in-law works in the ski business . Says that brand of boots has a carbon plate in them . Better asteresk that record*

Bump it up

People sure get excited over a gum ad...

I have no opinion on this. I don't even chew gum.