Division 3 To The Olympics to CEO: An Inspiring Underdog Story — Real Chalk #74
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we touch Nick Symmonds story of running for a division 3 school that ultimately put him into the Olympics... Twice... When asking the coach of his top choice college (Oregon) if he could be part of the team — the coach reciprocated with a definitive "it's never going to happen."
Even with double Olympic glory and this amazing underdog story, Nick still became depressed and had a 1 year slump of finding himself that he describes as "needed to happen." Nick talks about how he's found a new love for working out again, but this times it's CrossFit and other outdoor activities.
With a New love for working out and a new outlook on life, Nick has more energy and spring in his step then ever to create something great. His company Rungum is actually more than great and is now sold in huge storefronts including Target and a few other huge superstores that are not allowed To be spoken of just yet ;)
Stories like this one are exactly why I do this podcast and I absolutely LOVE everything about this episode. Get inspired and give it a listen!
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, it's Tuesday, time for the Real Chalk podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Your boy, Ryan Fish, was out in Oregon for like the last 10 days and I got to meet up |
| 0:10.3 | with some really cool people and I love you guys watch my Instagram at all but I got |
| 0:14.4 | to get inside of the University of Oregon's entire football situation which was insane. |
| 0:21.2 | I got to go into Phil Knight's locker and wear his helmet and just see everywhere where |
| 0:26.1 | the football players warm up all the crazy performance stuff that they have access to |
| 0:30.4 | and I mean it was just an amazing, amazing experience. |
| 0:35.1 | Their weight room is out of control. |
| 0:38.0 | Check out my Instagram, Ryan Fish and check out some of the stuff I posted on there. |
| 0:42.2 | Anyway, I also got to link up with a man named Nick Simmons who is going to be in this |
| 0:47.6 | podcast that you're about to listen to and basically his story is just one of those |
| 0:53.4 | amazing underdog stories that just gives you motivation for the week, gives you motivation |
| 0:57.7 | for life and it's just everybody loves an underdog story. |
| 1:01.2 | I love underdog stories so much and they are literally the reason that I started this |
| 1:06.8 | podcast because I love inspiring stories. |
| 1:11.5 | I started with my own story and then I wanted to you know break off and find some other |
| 1:15.3 | people who have some really cool stories and just have this podcast that inspired a |
| 1:18.6 | shit ton of people like you guys. |
| 1:19.9 | So here we go. |
| 1:21.9 | Nick Simmons started out at Division 3 school because he went to University of Oregon and |
| 1:26.4 | asked to be on their track team and the coach said absolutely not and then he went right |
| 1:30.8 | down the street to a different university. |
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