$1,000 for a 20:12 5k!! wtf??

Durkee's BREAD (for schools) RUN

Why do they even award prize money for charity runs?

That certainly is a lot of dough for a Bread Run.........

*Note: prize money amounts subject to change based on participation levels

So did she get $1000 or not? There weren't a lot of of participants (only 201).

yes...she did receive the money...unreal, unreal

wow, how much do average road races go for? I'm bout to get back into training just for the money

Wow! The guys times were respectable but 20:12 by a gal gets her a cool grand, unreal! How does that even happen? Was there some race in the next town giving out 2K?

irunxc wrote:

Wow! The guys times were respectable but 20:12 by a gal gets her a cool grand, unreal! How does that even happen? Was there some race in the next town giving out 2K?

Uh, try the SAME town. The Bread Run Half Marathon gave 2k to the winners.

Also, it looks like the prize money for the half went 15 deep, and 10 deep for the 5k, which would mean they gave out money for a 1:51 half, and a 26:00 5k. There were only 100 finishers in the half, by the way.

It is important to pick your races well.

Update: the 2010 bread run is sold out

man, I gotta move there! too bad I live in DC and every single road race that offers even a cent of prize money attracts 15 ethiopians who are only living/training in the area for a year before they get cycled out for new ones.

Oh believe me, I've tried to go to the small ones...they find those as well. damn greedy africans.

Ha! Greedy Africans my ass. They're trying to feed their impoverished families. If you can't beat a few 6th tier Ethiopians do you really deserve any prize money?

i kinda like running wrote:

Ha! Greedy Africans my ass. They're trying to feed their impoverished families. If you can't beat a few 6th tier Ethiopians do you really deserve any prize money?

Seriously. People complain about this all the time, despite it being one of the fairest situations possible in life, and despite the "problem" having a very straightforward solution: run faster.

very strange situation wrote:

Seriously. People complain about this all the time, despite it being one of the fairest situations possible in life, and despite the "problem" having a very straightforward solution: run faster.

I think he was kidding with the "greedy Africans" whine. At least I hope he was.

It would be nice if we could pack our bags and go to Ethiopia to run a few races for some prize money. I'm sure the Ethiopian government could find $10,000 to put up. It's alright for them to come to America or Europe but we don't get to race in kind in their hometowns. Since they will always win, maybe the races should stop offering prize money. So many people run knowing they won't win any money but they run anyway. Why not get rid of the people who don't do it for love, but money and see what kind of race gets run?

You scratch my back wrote:

Why not get rid of the people who don't do it for love, but money and see what kind of race gets run?

A slower one.

just because someone gets paid for running, does not mean they dont love running.

the ones getting paid for running must have some love and passion for running, to run basically about 15 miles a day for 10 years or more, to get that good, and you have to figure most run for years not good enough to get paid.

look at geb and defar before and after races, they are always happy and smiling probably because they love their job.

even when geb dropped out of london, a reporter was talking to him within minutes trying to get geb to make an excuse and geb was smiling and looking happy and basically not making excuses, just saying it was not his day.

As a female masters runner, I've run PRs and placed Top 3 overall in races where the only prize was a medal, and in I've won cash in other races where I ran much slower times.

It's the luck of the draw. Recently I ran a 33 flat for five miles and didn't even win a 40-49 age group award. Then in another race, I won cash for winning with a 21-minute 5k. I felt embarrassed and said to the male overall winner, who was beside me, "I ran really slow." His answer was, "All that matters is that you were the fastest today."

If nobody faster showed up, this girl deserves her prize money.

from what I can tell the girl who won is in college on a team, thus she can't take the prize money either...and btw she wasn't the fastest of the day, some girl in HS beat her by a minute and half. So, well umm... you're completely wrong.

disintegration wrote:

from what I can tell the girl who won is in college on a team, thus she can't take the prize money either...and btw she wasn't the fastest of the day, some girl in HS beat her by a minute and half. So, well umm... you're completely wrong.

no sir, read the original post. It mentions the HS girl. You are wrong