for participating in his video. Beginning in 2020, Symmonds has started a second YouTube channel named 'Nick Symmonds Too', consisting of many reaction, tutorial and challenge videos of shorter length. As of 2023, the channel has 50.7 thousand subscribers, and 5.2 million views. Personal life In 2020, Symmonds married Tiana Baur. Symmonds has a pet rabbit named Mortimer, with whom he posed for a PETA ad campaign against animal testing. Symmonds is also an avid fisherman. In 2017, Symmonds was hired by the newly formed Track Town Summer Series Professional Track & Field league to act as General Manager for the team representing San Francisco. Symmonds opposes what he considers absurdly strict rules restricting athletes' ability to market themselves. For the 2012 season, he auctioned off space on his left shoulder for a temporary tattoo to advertise a sponsor. The winning bidder was a Milwaukee advertising agency, Hanson Dodge Creative, which paid $11,000 for the space to advertise their Twitter handle. During restricted competitions like the Olympic trials and the Olympics themselves, Symmonds is required to cover up the tattoo with white tape, which actually draws attention to the tattoo advertising underneath. Symmonds is not the first track athlete to do this; 2004 Olympic champion shot-putter Adam Nelson actively sold space on his shirt during the 2005 season (when he won the IAAF World Championships). The practice is also common in boxing. At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Symmonds was a vocal critic of Russia's "anti-gay" laws. He dedicated his silver medal to his gay and lesbian friends. Symmonds published an article in the November 2013 issue of Runner's World magazine advocating that Congress should "[b]an assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel." Personal records 100m outdoors (Masters 35+) - 11.52 (Eugene, Oregon, July 25, 2019) 200m outdoors (Masters 35+) - 24.39 (Eugene, Oregon, March 5, 2020) 400 m outdoors - 47.45 (Dublin, Ireland, July 25, 2012) 800 m outdoors - 1:42.95 (London, August 9, 2012) 800 m indoors - 1:46.48 (Valencia, Spain, March 9, 2008) 1500 m - 3:34.55 (Monaco 2013) Mile indoors - 3:56.72 (Seattle, Washington, January 13, 2007) Mile outdoors - 3:51 (2013) Mile outdoors (road) - 3:54.9 (Oregon, January 31, 2020) Beer mile - 5:19 (August 21, 2012) 5k road - 15:49 (Boise Idaho, November 27, 2014) Marathon - 3:00:35 (Honolulu, Hawaii) Major victories USA Outdoor Track and Field