If you won the $1 billion mega jackpot powerbro lotto, would it change how you run?

You the man!

Hell, I'd take that deal even if I won the billion dollars.

And I wouldn't be checking the cell phone all the time and taking a bunch of selfies. For the most part.

Build my own track in my back yard. Perhaps buy my own mountain with well packed trails. Hire some cheerleaders. Other than that, no.

I'd buy some on running gear - saw it at Penn relays, looked really nice but I don't want to pay nearly $90 for a shirt.

other than that, I'd allocate ~5% for "fun" money and put most of the rest into index funds, some into bonds, and a little into crypto and VC

By the time the taxman takes his cut, you're down to half a billion in actual take home. In a high cost of living area, that's barely enough to make ends meet. Maybe if you live in some flyover state a billion dollars would be enough to substantially change your lifestyle.

I would hire nutritionists and a chef to plan and prepare ideal meals, snacks, etc. for me, using organic locally sourced ingredients when possible.

I would hire a strength/flexibility coach, physical therapist and massage therapist to evaluate and prescribe/oversee/administer care for my body.

I would sponsor regional racing teams for track, road and MUT runners. Goal would be to provide grassroots support to numerous committed runners as developmental teams working to improve to the next levels.

I would sponsor numerous free public road, track and trail races that focus on the basics (accurate courses and timing, seeded events to foster close competition.)

I would build and pay for maintenance of a nice, groomed grass 400m track, and host numerous races on it including barefoot races. It would be free and open to the public for general running/training on a limited basis

i'd train in vaporflys every day and maybe start a beer league track team.

I’d always wonder how much money it takes to fund an Olympic 4 year cycle, cost of living , training, shoes, coaches etc.... but if I had 1 million I would certainly go to Kenyan and run.

I'd get a lot faster from all the fartleks i'd be doing running away from everyone asking me for money. I'm not just talking about friends and family, there's literally an industry around trying to bilk money from lottery winners. The money would be great, the lack of anonymity would suck.

I've heard if you win the lotto, a good idea is to get your mail forwarded to a PO box, then disappear for six months.

Everyone comes after your money and new friends start showing up all the time. Charities will hit you up too. Doing this will minimize it a bit.

Also, for the big publicized photo, shave your head and your eyebrows so people won't recognize you once it grows back, and ask you for money when they see you in the street.

I'm pretty sure you can decline the media pictures. The first thing I'd do is talk to some lawyers about the best ways to claim it as anonymously as possible. Then id have them advise me about the best ways to keep my money safe. EG, setting up trusts for friends and family. Then I'd move to another country for a few years. Maybe return to a different state after a few years.

Winning that big of a jackpot would be somewhat of a curse. If you think you'd just go about living your same normal life, you'd be in for a huge surprise. People showing up at your doorstep. People following you everywhere you go. Friends and family giving you sob stories and buisness investment deals. Constantly getting robbed.

I would get my plantar faciitis treated! BAM.

Kaiser is dragging their feet, but they usually come around...

I don't know how it would change my running except that I couldn't blame my slowness on not being able to afford those carbon plated shoes anymore.

But for kicks, I'd buy a whole lot of really overpriced, expensive cycling gear and never use it. Not even once, I'd just post a lot of pictures of it on social media sites and say stuff like, 'yeah, it's supposed to be the hottest new things for the elites, the primo, the real deal,...snd maybe one of these days I'll get around to trying it out."

I'd buy Russia when it goes bankrupt in a few months, rebuild all their dated railway tracks as 4 lane Mondo tracks, connect all their former military bases through those, rebuild those as pay-what-you-want pizza parlours for the contestants and start the worlds longest ultra race from East to West.

I would prefer it be lined with altruistic ravens, lots of them.

TBH for what I want to do I don't need a billion, 20 thousand would suffice. I would get my failed surgeries treated and then not be in pain every day and when I walk. Things got so bad a while ago I couldn't walk more than about 2 minutes. It feels like walking on glass (broken glass under my left foot). Or like when you get a stone in your shoe.

The altruistic ravens would be large, like a small horse, and it would have a seat on its back. They would carry me around to see lots of different places. And maybe fly around too.

I would keep a physical therapist on retainer and personally fund a series of open/amateur track and XC meets in my area. Let's throw in some less frequent pro meets as well. I live in one of the 20 largest metropolitan areas of the US and we have exactly zero pro running events other than B-list road races.

I won suckas!!!!!! First course of action will be to buy LRC and get rid of the mods! I’m calling the brojos now. I’ll give JG a big raise too.

Well, first off, lump sum after taxes would be roughly $500M. Still quite a hefty sum.

I don’t hate my job, but I’d quit. I’d buy a place in Jackson, WY for summer running. I’d buy a another house on Clearwater Beach, FL for winter running. I’d build my own gym with an ice bath, jacuzzi and PT/masseuse on call.

I’d fly private to destination races all over the world.

I think most of those things I’ll be able to do in 15 years, except having my own PT and flying private regularly.