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

Besides needing to plan some new routes from my new mansions, probably not much. Having a mondo track in the backyard will also be nice.

I would no longer spend much time running in Corona, Rego Park or Elmhurst, Queens.

Hell yeah, I'd be calling Al-Sal on his cell for daily workouts.

I wouldn't change much, other than not go to work any more.

You guys need to be more imaginative. Start thinking like the Hugh Hefner of running. Maybe get some body guards like Gadafi.

I'd be sponsoring figure skaters like that Bond villain.

Yes it would change how I run as I'd be wearing a new pair of super shoes every week instead of five year old Vamero's. Also, I'd be getting home visits from a top specialist to get some T and all the other gear pumped in to me, only way to keep up the running and looking after all those newly acquired super models.

I’d quit my job, up my mileage, and do more of the other things I enjoy

Mine would be a 400 meter indoor track

I would start cycling and pay people to run my miles for me.

You must not love your job! :)

I'd build a 440 yard track somewhere where it mostly cool and not humid. Maybe the Blue Ridge. Trees shading the track, a refreshment stand and small small bleachers. Wind guages or flags around the track. A permanent timing system.

Once a month, I would have an open mile race with a field of 8 runners. Every runner would have to go sub 4. If all did that, each would get $5,000. If one missed, then no one would get anything.

My track would be open to all, but there would be a $500 fully refundable deposit at the manned gate. If you are caught walking in lane 1 or 2 while others are doing their repeats, you forfeit your deposit. If you run more than two abreast, you forfeit your deposit.

Cellphones would be checked at the gate. If you are caught using a cellphone on the track, you would be banned forever. Same with headphones.

I would build a runner's pub outside the track, where everyone could go and have a good time. The pub would have those cellphone blockers so everyone in the pub would have to interact with other runners instead of staring into their phones.

I would organize twice monthly age group track meets, the prizes would be free food or drinks in the pub.

That is what I would do.

True story. I used to work in Redmond, WA, home to Microsoft. One day I see this guy at a 3-way stop that i was turning onto in a nice, non-descript sedan looking nervously both ways before he made his turn onto the main street, which didn't have any stop signs on the main portion, but his road that abuts into it did.

It was Bill Gates.
What struck me was how he was double and triple checking for oncoming traffic before making the turn. Overly cautious is the term that comes to mind, and that's being polite.

Later I came to realize that, sure, getting snuffed in a traffic accident for anyone would surely s*ck plenty. But for it to happen to the guy with the most money in the world (at that time), that would really s*ck. And I got the impression that must be a certain weight one would carry.

So, in that regard, if I won the mega jackpot tonight, I think I'd probably lose the earbuds, at least while running in the street, as much as I would hate to (and I would hate to).

lol, I chuckled at this. Well done.