Daniel Simmons Speaks On His Historic Season, Chase Of An Olympic Trials Standard In The 5k (13:25), & How His Faith Has Propelled Him On & Off The Track

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast is one of the greatest talents of our generation, Daniel Simmons!

Daniel is the most successful athlete in Utah's high school boys' running history. He was the 2024 Indoor Track and Field National Champion in the 5000m (NBNI), where he set a new National Record of 13:38; the day before, he led his team to the 4XMile relay anchor National Champions, running the second fastest time ever. Danny won the 2024 Arcadia Invitational 3200m Champion and 4XMile relay (anchor) Champions. He was the BYU Invitational 1600m Champion (new meet and state record),

2024 Utah 6A State Champion 1600m (New State Record 4:01) and 3200m (New State Record 8:36), as well as the 4X800 relay team State Champions.

Daniel has run 1:53 in the 800m, 4:01 in the 1600m at altitude, 8:36 in the 3200m at altitude (8:34 at sea level), and 13:38 in the 5k.

On the grass, Daniel is a 2XUtah 6A State XC Champion (2022, 2023), 2X NXR Southwest XC Champion (2022, 2023) and placed 2nd at NXN in 2022.

Get this, Daniel holds the course record on every course he has run on except the NXN course (Portland) where he has the 2nd fastest course time.

Daniel is also the BACK-TO-BACK Gatorade Boys National Boys POY.

In today's conversation, we go through Danny's past few months of training and racing and how pivotal a role his faith plays. I sincerely loved this conversation and know you'll find benefit from it.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, just a quick note before we hop into today's episode of the podcast, majority of you guys
0:05.9	listening right now have not given us a follow and a five-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts,
0:10.7	and it takes legitimately between five-and-10 seconds to hit the follow button, hit the five-star review
0:16.2	button. So I'd greatly appreciate you guys doing so if you have not done so already. And then
0:20.6	something all of you guys can do right now is share today's episode with a friend,
0:24.4	a family member, a teammate, someone who you think would find value and benefit from it.
0:28.8	I would greatly appreciate you guys doing that, sharing the podcast, sharing today's episode
0:32.4	with someone.
0:33.4	Because through that, we can expand the show and reach new people and hopefully through
0:37.3	that inspire them in the process. reach new people and hopefully through that
0:37.5	inspire them in the process without for their due let's get into today's conversation
0:41.7	Daniel Simmons welcome back to the running effect podcast how you doing this morning man
0:45.9	I'm feeling great today's been a good start I'm gonna start with a generic question
0:52.1	but nonetheless people are curious about it where where are you pulling
0:56.2	these performances out of man they're crazy what do you mean i mean uh
1:01.4	on the altitude yeah yeah okay okay i see what you say now okay come on um i don't know i feel like
1:08.7	i've just been getting stronger every single day. I've been
1:12.6	consistent with my training and definitely been believing in the impossible.
1:19.6	Do you ever wish that you didn't live in Utah, you lived at sea level where, I don't know, what's your take on like
1:28.5	the whole altitude debate? I mean, a 401 is for sure a sub four, no doubt about it. It's just a
1:33.3	question of how far under. Do you ever wish you lived elsewhere or do you appreciate the altitude?
1:38.2	And I mean, it does make the performances all the more crazy. A kid runs 401 10 years ago. Everyone's
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