A millionaire pays you just to be the best runner possible:what do you think will you achieve?

How much you getting paid?

Couscous wrote:

Best coaches, nutritionist, facilities and psychologists too. Your sole purpose would be to run the fastest possible (any favorite distance). What will you achieve?

Probably not much more then you would without it.

I can only speak for ultrarunning but is interesting to see that highly sponsored Jim Walmsley is losing to full time working athletes all the time. I think it's quite difficult to find the sweet spot of training when you have too much time on your hands.

Not any faster than I already ran.

I had a great coach and facilities.

Could have eaten better.

From age 2 1/2 or age 3 like ballerinas? From age 12 or age 13? If you're talking from age 22 or age 23, not much difference. We see this already with A.A.U. basketball. In aggregate due to intensity of A.A.U. basketball, the 12 & 13 year olds are better than 12 or 13 year old boys were fifty years ago, but kids are suffering overuse injuries like 25 year olds due to highly intense specialization at a young age.

10K in 45:30 at age 60. That would require a hyper focused and dedicated training effort.

My best recent 10K was 51:20 at age 58.

Can they make me 50 years younger? At age 68 I would be lucky to break 8 minutes. And they wouldn't have to pay me anything.

There is no need for more than 50-70 bucks per month to pay for my coaching service and I would of course coach myself.:) )

That would have gotten me to a 25 minute 5k.

The millions wouldn’t be enough unless it were taken and grown. I.e Better “facilities” are needed. The great runners break ground too. To oversimplify for the sake of brevity and intelligibility, It takes genius and serendipity to bring together the natural, social, architectural and engineering powers to create continuous great running traction. And then?

(We shop and stockpile for a few years of shoes with great treads and traction. And then)

We catch the Wind!

Wonderful glorious energy

Probably slower since I’d be bored doing nothing all day and would probably quit

from what date? wrote:

From age 2 1/2 or age 3 like ballerinas? From age 12 or age 13? If you're talking from age 22 or age 23, not much difference. We see this already with A.A.U. basketball. In aggregate due to intensity of A.A.U. basketball, the 12 & 13 year olds are better than 12 or 13 year old boys were fifty years ago, but kids are suffering overuse injuries like 25 year olds due to highly intense specialization at a young age.

Things can go to extremes but that doesn't mean that you can't do better. I don't think I should have been running 80mpw as a 12 year old. But I imagine if I spend14 running like 10-15 mpw ( say

30min runs of about 3 miles, some long run working up t o an hour, and doing some hill sprints) to go with other sports, I would have been in better spot as a freshmen XC runner to start training more seriously and with that time to adapt maybe my tendons and the like would have made it easier to tolerate higher mileages...

The unknowable part to me is if I would have thrived better (or worse) in a different system. I am not sure how you can quantify that. Maybe the Newbury Park coach would have had be running 15:30 instead of 16:30....

Post college is hard. A few people have had epic breakthroughs (going from 14 high to 14 low) but it isn't clear if they are the exception or just the few that kept putting the mileage for another 5 years. I know after grad school, I cut my training way back.

Couscous wrote:

Best coaches, nutritionist, facilities and psychologists too. Your sole purpose would be to run the fastest possible (any favorite distance). What will you achieve?

I dont get it. Are you offering? I've got a 7 year plan for an age group world record proposal that I'd gladly sign a contract to pursue...if you're awoffering...

At least a 2:05 marathon. Will partly that into a world class 10k time and a medal. No prob.