How much did you get the most in a year ?
How much did you get the most in a year ?
Yes, $400 lifetime earnings. Does this make a professional runner?
Of course, but I prefer to avoid races that give prizes in favor of time trials with my teammates.
Does that include store certificates, or just cash or check?
$1800. Probably around $3500 lifetime. Only took about 50,000 miles to make all that.
Career earnings: $50 for 3rd in a podunk 5k
I'm pretty clearly non-elite - my best PB is probably my 2:32 for the marathon - but I've won money at least 4 times in races (maybe once or twice more - my memory is bad) for a total of at least $550. Plus I won a kick-ass pocket-knife at this one half-marathon. Obviously I was never in it for the money, but it is kind of a hoot when you get some, even if it doesn't cover the overall amount you spend on the race, travel, etc.
Many times, the biggest payday being $2000 for 8th place female in the 1992 Pittsburgh Marathon. I was hardly elite--I only ran something like 2:52 in that race. I've won amounts ranging from $500 on down on many other occasions, many for winning the masters or grand masters division. Not bad for someone who could never break 18 for 5K.
$10,000 for winning the (now extinct) North Face 50-mile Trail Race in Marin Headlands, San Fran. Biggest cash prize in US mountain-ultra-trail running until Run Rabbit Run 100 came along.
When I was a road marathoner at Hansons I remember seeing an ad in a running magazine for it and I told my teammates I was going to try to win it (this was about 3 years beforehand). Some of them laughed at me, but I was tired of only making a few hundred bucks here and there on the road circuit.
That's awesome. I won a carved duck, a knitted hat and $100 dollars all time...I like the carved duck most of all!!!!
$75 once, $50 once, $25 another time. All local 5km races (winning outright or being on the podium).
S. Canaday wrote:
$10,000 for winning the (now extinct) North Face 50-mile Trail Race in Marin Headlands, San Fran. Biggest cash prize in US mountain-ultra-trail running until Run Rabbit Run 100 came along.
When I was a road marathoner at Hansons I remember seeing an ad in a running magazine for it and I told my teammates I was going to try to win it (this was about 3 years beforehand). Some of them laughed at me, but I was tired of only making a few hundred bucks here and there on the road circuit.
Now we know, why you have changed to trails :)
I was running a small local marathon as a training run (2:48 where I think I I was fit enough to run at least 10-15 minutes faster). Accidentally finished second and took home over 200€. I won a bunch of small local races but never got any money before.
A little bit, a few hundred here and there, less than 1k total. I'm very happy if I can win more than the entry fee. Some races have prizes lower than the entry fee for the slower overall award winners, if they offer a prize purse at all.
Most in a year? $250. $425 lifetime ($250, $125 & $50 in 3 races). Joke’s on the RDs, because I’m not that good.
The $250 was for 3rd in a podunk rainy marathon, running only 2:55.
Straight Cash Homie wrote:
$1800. Probably around $3500 lifetime. Only took about 50,000 miles to make all that.
Not bad. I only got $100 and a bottle of rum in 50,000 miles.
No, I was not good enough. I remember when I was still running road races and I eyed a half marathon and maybe one other race on the calendar. Some of them offered a little bit of prize money and I figured that I may have had a shot to win a hundred or slightly more, but I didn't pursue that.
Extremely little. In NYC back in the early 1990s the New York Road Runner's Club had some scoring system in regard to your place finish within a certain amount of races a participant runs ( that is how I best understood it) and because of this scoring system I won some $8 to maybe $15. My memory does not serve very well righ tnow. I was never an elite though some people have told me I had potential for it. I was relatively, decently, good for someone who mostly only practiced weekends. I did work as a walking messenger then.
Authentic Mexican wrote:
Of course, but I prefer to avoid races that give prizes in favor of time trials with my teammates.
And most importantly, TR’s where they do t conduct drug testing!
Do running shoe store gift cards count? If so, $20 x 3 for winning the masters division in local 5Ks. The one race I actually won, gave no cash. Just a glass (plastic?) plaque/trophy-thing. My best winning ever, was a 2nd place pineapple. Only $2 cash value but oh so tasty.