longtrousers wrote:
littlepete wrote:
Salt Lake City 2022 has 3597 starters.
Kona 2019 had 2129 starters overall.
Thats a massive difference in profits for Ironman.
If you compare Kona one day with Kona two days yes. But look if you compare it with the income of Ironman of all of their 140.6-es.
A two day Kona brings in 2500*1100= 2.7 million $ more than a one day Kona.
There are about 36 Ironmans. Lets say conservatively with 2000 participants per IM. That brings 2000*600*36= 43.2 million $.
So the income of Ironman increases with 2.7 / 43,2 * 100 = 6,25%.
And
that I do not call a "massive difference".
This difference even becomes smaller -relatively, as a percentage- if you add all of the 70.3-s and other income of Ironman.
Hey, you guys are confusing revenues, profits, incomes etc.
Putting that aside, every time I have given Ironman $300-$800 for a 70.3 or full or given then over $1000 (all figures CAD) for a championship, I have probably spent $1000-$2000 on airfares, and $800-$2500 on hotels and probably another $200 on restaurants. There are several companies making way more revenue off each participant at an Ironman event than the Ironman corporation itself. Even for a local event, the towns force bogus 2-3 night minimum hotel stays. We are all lemmings in this. We can easily do local events, sleep in our beds, pay $80 and be done. Or just bike to your local pool, hammer a swim, get on the bike, hammer a bike for 40km and loop home, put on the running shoes and turn out the gps and hammer out 10km and do it all for free.
It's a bit hard to complain about Ironman and hotels and airlines milking us, when we can just turn on our GPSs and do it all for free like during the pandemic, but hey, if someone is organizing a party that we all want to be at, I guess they get to decide the price on what they want to charge, before we all go back to self timed solo events like we did in summer 2020 in most regions.