The Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon offer a lucrative prize package. The Pikes Peak Ascent Bounty, plus bonuses for race records, and the fastest ascent time of the weekend providing big cash incentives. It's possible for one runner to win $10,000.

The Bounty works like this: The first male to complete the Ascent, or Ascent portion of the Pikes Peak Marathon, in under two hours will win an additional $7,000. The first female to eclipse 2:21 will win $6,000.

The bounty prize money increases by $1,000 each year, but will be capped at $10,000.  The women’s bounty of $5,000 was won by Kim Dobson in 2012.

There is also a bonus of $2,000 for runners who break the Pikes Peak Ascent record (2:01:06 for men; 2:24:58 for women.) The bonus for a Pikes Peak Marathon record (3:16:39 for men; 4:15:18 women) is $4,000. The bonus for the record will not be paid if a runners wins the Bounty prize money.

And just to make things interesting, the male and female runners who record the fastest ascent time (in the Pikes Peak Ascent, or the ascent portion of the Pikes Peak Marathon) will win an additional $1,000.

But wait, There's more! Prize money for the top finishers in the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon breaks down like this: First place $2,000; second place, $1,200; third place, $600; fourth place, $200.