your opinion for US Male Contract amounts

It would be nice to believe those times would yield a $50,000 base contract . . . but

Well we know Wejo ran 28:00 (or close enough) and got $0.

Jared Ward ran 2:13:00 and qualified for the olympics, so I'm guessing that's worth something, but if he'd run it in Dubai it wouldn't even be in the top 10 (probably worth nothing).

13:13 seems to be the best time there (I dunno about steeple) and would have put him 20th in the world in 2017. Eric Jenkins ran that in 2017, and he has a nice sponsorship, although his PR is also faster.

Also it depends on nationality. If you were a Kenyan with these times you probably wouldn't get as much as if you were American.

An athlete that has a range of 1:45 800 to a 2:13 marathon??!?!

Most runners should only get free shoelaces!

Just Legs wrote:

An athlete that has a range of 1:45 800 to a 2:13 marathon??!?!

Are you really that dumb?

"Assume the athlete has these PRs set in 2017 what do you give these men as a base contract?"

The assumed athlete doesn't have just 1 PR, but he has multiple PRs.

That's what the OP asked. How much do we offer this athlete that has "these PRs"?

And why not? It's not entirely impossible for some athletes to have a range of distances from middle to long distances.

Just Legs wrote:

An athlete that has a range of 1:45 800 to a 2:13 marathon??!?!

guess who this is and do you think he could run a 2:13 marathon

800 Metres 1:46.00

1000 Metres 2:16.18

1500 Metres 3:26.34

One Mile 3:47.28

2000 Metres 4:55.49

3000 Metres 7:29.00

Two Miles 8:12.45

5000 Metres 12:53.60

10,000 Metres 27:49.35

10 Kilometres 27:48

Half Marathon 1:02:33

El.... Guerrouj?

Lagat. Most set when he was on EPO.

[quote]Axe me a question. I dare you wrote:

"Assume the athlete has these PRs set in 2017 what do you give these men as a base contract?"

The assumed athlete doesn't have just 1 PR, but he has multiple PRs.

That's what the OP asked. How much do we offer this athlete that has "these PRs"? No he did notbut he could have been clearer in his question

And why not? It's not entirely impossible for some athletes to have a range of distances from middle to long distances.[/quote

They should move to ultras where they'll get a $50,000 base salary with Hoka and capped bonuses.

Heard a solid rumor that nobody in NYNJ club makes more than $50k/year (except Gags). Sort of depressing because they have some top 10 in their events US. Is Brooks Beasts funded to same degree?

It really is Nike or NB women!

Are you asking for just a stipend amount?

Are you expected to pay for Coaching, travel, physio, massage, housing?

That alone costs nearly $40k depending on where in the country you choose to live and whether you are planning to race in Europe.

shoe contractor wrote: Assume the athlete has these PRs set in 2017 what do you give these men as a base contract?

I don't believe a person capable of framing the question in this way is also capable of holding down a job of any kind, so you are almost certainly not a shoe contractor but an unemployable 30-year-old living in your mom's basement with too much time on your hands to bother with basic reading comprehension skills.

in addition, I will be extremely susprised if any of the folks on LRC are capable of navigating the tortuous syntax of the question. you have the athlete and these men in the same clause so it isn't even obvious if you are talking about a single athlete who has run all of those times or several different athletes who have each run one or more of those times, and I suspect you don't even know yourself.

I am therefore going to award this thread 1/10 for troll value, based purely on it having achieved over a dozen replies without any of these dumwits figuring it out.

Cheers.

While slightly off topic. The way the OP framed the question does read as though the hypothetical athlete in question would have all those listed PR's (I don't think that was the intention). What athletes have/had that kind of range is an interesting topic. Rui Silva comes to mind as having great range, even though he doesn't quite hit all of the PR's mentioned (and doesn't have a steeple PR to his name), but greatly betters some of them:

800 - 1:44.91

1500 - 3:30.07

3000 - 7:46.41

5000 - 13:19.20

10000 - 27:53.55

HM - 1:02:40

Marathon - 2:12:16

Time as the only valuation metric makes this a moot exercise. Social media presence and Olympic Medals and winning big city marathons matter a whole lot more!