finisher medal wrote:
"We will give Mr. Rossi $10,000 if he breaks 3:25 in the marathon (standard course) in the next 12 months. That’s nearly 20 seconds a miler slower than his “official†PR. Update on 7/17/2015: We will pay him $100,000 if he runs 3:11:45 on a legitimate records-eligible course in the next 12 months where we have advanced notice of his participation ($10,000 per year for 10 years)."
The terms of their offer are definite to a reasonable person, providing ascertainable conditions by which the offeree would be bound:
- break 3:25 within 12 months [you meant: run 3:11:45]
- it needs to be a legit course
- you need to tell us when so we can be there
- you get paid in installments
If you do all those things, we will give you $100k.
One could argue that these conditions were only attached to the 100k offer, not to the 10k offer.
Quite definitely there are none mentioned in this part:
"So we’ll also give him $10,000 if by the end of 2015 he breaks 70:00 in a standard 10-mile course or 20:00 for 5k."
I.e., no advanced notice, no records-eligible (but "standard" course) required - but a shorter timeframe.
Last, it may be interesting to note that the 100k offer is explicitly for a 3:11:45, not for a "3:11:45 or better".
It's a shame that Mike suffered a setback likely caused by his ambitiously fast return to hard quality sessions..