Cannot see myself doing anything besides running as an occupation

You will change when the reality of the real world sets in on you.

Get through college first and enjoy it. Study something that you can make a living from and not a Starbucks job. Lots well educated baristas out there with useless degrees.

If your lucky you may get some free shoes/kit from a shoe company and get to do a little racing post collegiate.

Focus on a real life career and how will you want to live your life post running.

I have 1 word for you:

Ultra

There you go young man. You cannot compete vs actual fast people with those times you posted, so you can go race old men and soccer moms on the ultra scene. Be sure to grow a beard and wear a trucker hat, you'll be 3/4 of the way to being a "pro".

Most of us on here used to think the way you do. Everyone has to eventually grow up and become a republican.

Live in a van. Drive around the country competing in road races.

Bruce Frederick wrote:

Sadly no, all if it could be gone and this whole dream of being a starving runner could disappear into an amazing rock ballad... but at least he'd have that.

Bruce neither got married shotgun style at 19 nor was he sent off to a foreign land to kill a yellow man.