Honestly, there's talk amongst the athletes, that Simas is the hardest working athlete in Lithuanian athletics. He has never qualified to any junior championships, a couple of years ago he would still finish dead last in Athletics Team Championships 1st and 2nd league, which was literally the most prestigious event that he has entered during his career. Still, with every season he kept shaving off a couple of seconds off of his time and brought it down to somewhere around 3:44 in 2017 and said that he would be qualifying to Euros this year. He brought down his PB to 3:41, then 3:40 and then under 3:40, breaking the 1500 NR (that was 30 years old) three times this season. If this isn't dedication, I don't know what is, because we don't have any history of successful male middle distance running in anything above 800m.