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£199 for a team entry, that’s £66 to run 10k!!!
How can they justify that, I’ve scrapped the idea of taking part as a team next year.
Because it's in London where lots of people with two much money (and too little to do given how you simply wouldn't live in London if you were into mountain biking) live who will are prepared to pay that much. I'm sure it will sell out. Supply and demand and all that.
I agree about supply and demand but need people not too £66 for a 10k run is horrific oh but remember you'll get some gash ill fitting t-shirt as a "souvenir" or most blo**y expensive T-shirt you've ever purchased!
I agree about supply and demand but need people not too £66 for a 10k run is horrific oh but remember you'll get some gash ill fitting t-shirt as a "souvenir" or most blo**y expensive T-shirt you've ever purchased!
One of my London pals with too much money did it this year, I looked at doing it with him next year, but soon as I saw the price 🙁
I imagine the cost of hiring a large exhibition centre with a dock to swim in and getting about 9 miles of London roads closed must be fairly substantial - compared to a regular "swim in a local pool, ride on open roads" local tri.
I guess the other aspect is that people will pay. The team entry seems a bit OTT (ok, you have to process three people but there's no extra space needed in transition or on the course) but I guess it gets filled.
Mind you, 12000 entries at average £75 each = £900k which must make a decent profit.
Something like the Leeds tri is £55 though, which seems to be about the going rate for a non-London commercially organised event. Even my entry for the Cotswolds sprint tri was over £40.
Have done London a couple of times before so not keen to do it again. It is a massively popular event though, especially for those doing it for the first (and perhaps, only) time.
Blimey that's gone up since I did it.............
In 1984 😐