Time for a letsrun poster to tell the truth

30yo

$115K

Never went to college

Live in an apartment while investing 50% of my income. Don't want to be tied down and have lived in 4 different cities in the last 6 years.

Never married. No kids

16:17 5k PR

62 years old.

Pension and Soc Sec $30K of non taxed income in my state.

BS and a BA avg university. Professional career.

Live with girlfriend. Do whatever I want.

Divorced and lost 5 kids, 5 rental houses and $500K in savings.

Lately running 8:40 miles in training.

Moral of the story is "Better alone than badly accompanied". If you marry and you're a guy it will always be your fault.

39 years old

My wages are 100% commission and vary wildly. Over the past several years it's been between $65K and $250K. It's real estate related.

B.S. in Finance from a somewhat respectable state school

Own a house

Married with multiple children

17:49 5K

45 yo

Salary ~$100K

Masters from a state uni

Live in a house (own maybe 30% of it now?)

No kids that I know about. Not married

sub-17:00 5K PR

27

About $15,000. I'm a grad student and just happy to have a paycheck.

BS and working on my PhD. Living the dream.

Rent 1 br duplex

Lovely girlfriend

17:59 5k, 5:00 mile from HS

Want to beat those lame PRs but knee got buggered up and I haven't been able to train in two years. I jog a mile or two at a time, and it gives me much sadness.

Considering that 2/3rds of you are over 30 I'm a little disappointed in the maturity level of these message boards!

23 years old

55k base (about 70k total)

600 sqft apartment (no roommates)

3:46 1500m PR

single

can't do pushups

34

~$3million

No education of note

Wife and 4 kids

12:53

66 years old

retired, $350K last few years prior to retirement

BA Catholic mid-major school, JD state school

own home (better own it at my age)

married, two grown kids who are on their own

15:46 5K, 2:27 marathon (30+ years ago)

40 years old

85k a year and wife makes 90k. far from living high on the hog in this town.

no college

run my own business

own a condo and a house. good equity

2 kids

15:32 5k PR. On the track junior year of HS

18 yo

no salary, impoverished

Iten High School

single

13:40 5k

39, married with 2 young kids. Salary of $163K, spouse about $100K. Past couple years good bonuses and distributions and turned $150K into $700K after acquisition, Now minimal bonuses but $100K+ passive income, not sure what I want to be when I grow up, PR on roads of 16:25 a few years back, now around 18.

cnj wrote:

39, married with 2 young kids. Salary of $163K, spouse about $100K. Past couple years good bonuses and distributions and turned $150K into $700K after acquisition, Now minimal bonuses but $100K+ passive income, not sure what I want to be when I grow up, PR on roads of 16:25 a few years back, now around 18.

oh forgot to add BS from barely mediocre private school on full ride and MS 10 yrs later from same school paid for by employer.

52 years old

Salary $55,000

2 Bachelors degrees from 2 separate state schools, Masters from ACC school

Own my own home, paid off very soon

Never married, and don't plan too, to much to lose at this point

no kids

14:47 5k PR from way, way back

Still running, trying to get to 100,000 miles.

Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:

I mean what is the point of this thread?

AGREED!

53 yr. old male

Degree: GED from a State Prison program

salary: depends, I live off taxpayers and collect welfare.

Live in a trailer that I don't even own

Married to a cousin, we have 5 kids

PB: 15:57 5k over 3 decades ago.

42 y.o. female

Recently fired while earning 105K

Ph.D. in clinical psychology

Rent apt

Own nothing, owe nothing

no kids, never married

struggling to meet someone because I’m afraid of getting hurt

10k PR 43:23

best race: 3:19:27 at NYC marathon

Conclusion: the slower you are, the more money you make.

doing the best I can wrote:

struggling to meet someone because I’m afraid of getting hurt

This made me infernally sad. :(

27 y.o. female

Starting a job next month with $150k salary

PhD in electrical engineering

Apartment in big city

Never married, no kids

19:01 5k PR

40 years old

Salary 112k

Bachelors from a private university after transferring from JC. Full ride scholarship, lived off potatoes.

Rent my house in Silicon Valley for an enormous percentage of my paycheck. Foreclosed on my townhome when the bubble burst & wife was laid off. Lost everything I had saved. Now the bounce back a few years later has the price doubled. Dumbest financial decisions ever.

Married 12 years. 2 kids.

5k PR 15:36. My split in my 10k PR was 14:48. I could never run well in an open 5k. I shit the bed every time.