What we define as the reward differs based on the person, but if we are talking $$$ then I don't know if there is any money in trail running either. If anything I would think it is worse based on at least one friend that switched from ultra running to triathlon recently but I don't really know as I don't follow that scene. I do have an old triathlete girlfriend who was a very talented runner, ran at Miami OH. She couldn't swim though. She had a few kids and picked up the Spartan Race later on. For the amount she puts (sounds like about 1/4-1/2 of what a typical spartan racer does) she does well at the professional level. One of the Men's world champions is a former triathlete who I used to toe up against when I was an amateur back in 2010. He does well.

Regardless, the way I look at it is many of these things are once in a lifetime opportunities to do something different. Life is short, life is precious. So many people work their entire lives to retire and realize that retirement isn't all that it is cracked up to be. Might as well live your life if you can. To me it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with money. And there is plenty of money to be made in this sport, the problem is that the majority of triathletes don't actually follow the money. They follow things like Kona, and what does that get them??? Kirsty pretty much won Ironman Boulder as a glorified training day. something like 8k-15k for the win. Not bad for a training day. The one thing I always admired about Lauren Goss is her knack to know where to race. Some may call it cherry picking, but it was just more sound race selection with a focus on income IMHO Brett, Kirsty's old coach preached the same. Unfortunately, I was never a fan of QT2 race system fpr Kirsty which was basically, fly half way across the globe, put her on the start line with no other QT2 athlete, and race. Lot of travel, lots of risk, little reward when you factor in recovery, consistency etc and how the travel eats at any reward.

MBK did the following interview post New Zealand. In it she mentions how she is done with Ironman, 64 Ironmans, 40+ years old, going back to 70.3. She realizes she can race two a month as opposed to slogging in the training for an Ironman. More money, less training, and more time with the little one. Triathlon is what you make it and there is plenty of money to be made.

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