No value in run (From Wirral Globe)
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No value in run
12:53pm Tuesday 4th September 2012 in Letters
I AM a member of a running club in Wirral and with regards to running one thing puzzles me.
This Sunday, September 9, the Hoylake 10k is £10 to enter and all get a T-shirt.
In a few weeks at the same time as the Liverpool marathon there is a Wirral 10k.
This starts at the same time as the marathon so the roads are already closed. Just a few extra volunteers at the end of the 10k.
Probably the same goody bag. Yet the price to enter is £25. Why?
This sounds an absolute rip off. Come on Run Liverpool give us value for money I know which race gives value for money and it's not the Run Liverpool one.
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Comments(6)
gaz00
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7:50pm Thu 6 Sep 12
ThomasRothwell
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10:24am Fri 7 Sep 12
A brief list of costs that the Hoylake 10K don't have to pay -
Road Closure Order, Policing, Stewarding, Barriers, Gantry, Medals, PA System & Announcer, Chip Timing, Baggage Buses, Lunch provision for each and every steward, Staff Member, Marshall and Official, 80 x Toilets, Shipping Containers, Van Hire, Trophies, Branding, Traffic Management, Safety Team, Energy Drinks, Energy Gels, Fruit... the list can just go on and on.
And with regard to the London Marathon, they have 40,000 runners and millions of pounds of sponsorship from muli-national companies. The marathon we put on is done so solely on the entry fee at around about 10% of the cost of London.
By way of comparison the Bupa Manchester 10K is £37.
If you want growth and success events will inevitably cost more than £10.
Alan Rothwell
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1:32pm Fri 7 Sep 12
If the you consider an entry fee is too much then don't enter.
gaz00
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6:08pm Fri 7 Sep 12
fenix uk
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9:50am Wed 12 Sep 12
No road closures - volunteers helping out all of the way. It's lovely but its nothing like the scale of the Liverpool events. It is a small 'fun run' over paths - not a large race over public roads.
If it's so easy and cheap to put on a 10k - why haven't the local clubs done this ? I cant think of any on the Wirral that have managed this ?
The London Marathon entry is subsidised by the huge amount of sponsorship that they get from Virgin, Adidas, Lucozade etc. If it wasnt for that I'd expect their fees to be similar to Liverpool.
ThomasRothwell says...
12:44pm Thu 6 Sep 12