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Sadly I won't be in the country but if I was I think I would be struggling to justify £42 on an entry.
Do you not think that if the price was lowered to say £20 this event would be attracting a lot more riders or even selling out?
The organizers of these events always get folk asking the same thing leading up to these endurance events. I don't know off the top of my head the figures for marquee hire/erecting/dismantling,the amount the forestry might ask back per rider,first aid,the insurance,fuel for generators,generator hire,paying Sportident to come up and do the timing.. all the way down to giving the marshall`s a little something for their efforts.
Are you thinking along the lines of 200 riders @ £21 with ease or a case of struggling to get 100 riders @ £42? I don't know what all would happen if they had 300 riders as opposed to 100 riders cost-wise.Obviously a charge for a further 200 riders from the land owners would crop up but I'm not sure what else.
When you look back to us racing there 20 years ago for 2 hours,it cost us about 12 quid. £6 an hour.
So another arguement (not mine!) would be that these sort of endurance events are working out @ under £4 an hour.