One of the best bits of club membership.
Monthly duathlon in the local park for £2. Clipboard, stopwatch, cones.
2 tris per year for £2
Entrance to the relay sprints in Notts for £30 (club subsidises the entry).
Can do a lot of racing for under £100 including the annual membership.
Think £85 for an Oly is ok. Up to £150 for middle. I’ve never done an IM branded race as I can’t get past the fees.
Or ten pints of Peroni.
And tri club membership is…£700?
The risk to IM is feeding the events…
If we assume that there is a strata of income of people who simply cannot afford events…well they are out anyway, but this increase will increase that band.
The next level are those who would participate as a one off or want to take part, but this will take out them out. Whilst it might not seem a big increase, a small race with a club or organiser trying to keep to a price break point might be under pressure. It puts the on the day fee up from some loose change and may put a number or participants off. This therefore may not only lose that available spend bracket out of the game but all those who would have attended that event.
Without those who would have attended that race getting the bug and racing in bigger events, it not only puts the prices up on the mid range events due to lower numbers it may put these events at risk also. It can only end with IM races…
Aren’t all established sports down at the moment? Are there any that are up? The Hyrox thing that Mungo talks about, that sort of stuff, but that’s new, anything else, obstacle course racing is down I think (the new thing of ~10 years ago) cycling, tri, running events all much lower, I don’t think competitive participation is simply that popular in any sport right now, the I’d like to try that new thing and compete is still happening, which is why I do think a lot of it is cost.
If it’s a cycle 'cos of cost of living and post-covid, then it’ll go up again, but I’ve no idea if those are the reasons and there’s not something more.
where has that info come from?? if correct, that’s a huge leap and very damaging to the sport. Insurance generally has gone up in many areas (car, home etc) so has this increase been enforced by the insurers and BTF having to pass it on?
I think all hobbies are down.
Consumer Price Index weighting has roughly halved in recent years:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/l8ct/mm23
I’ve been thinking about my annual memberships, spiked by @joexs comments.
Mine isn’t too bad, but still have tri club membership (not expensive, as I don’t train with others), BTF membership, membership of a local running league.
All in, it’s about £100 which I can luckily afford without any worry. Money isn’t the issue, it’s time.
And it’s the hassle of it all, and they frequently compete against each other (in my mind, not purposefully). To word off comments, for example club championships on this date, which is around the same time of a local running race I’d also like to support, and a larger triathlon I’d like to take part in. All on the backdrop of a young family, etc.
I feel heading into next year I’m happy to step back. The club membership will almost certainly go, but in the current climate I still think I’ll support the other two.
I imagine, for those with an eye on their finances, it becomes even harder.
Depends what you’re including in this, but divide by 20 and your close to mine (which is a good thing, seeing as through injury I’ve not been to a club session in over a year)
Trail running/ultra ‘kind of’. Lots of small events suffering and I notice even Centurion are open longer than normal but the real growth is the ‘moth to a flame’ UTMB branded events.
It’s just like the IM circus, with a lot more vegans and beards. 
And less dentists! 
Give it time. Carbon plated trails shoes are a thing now. 
Pretty similar to Thames Turbo which is my closest club. I think they’re around £40 per month. Despite knowing a few of their members I’ve always been put off by not being able to regularly make the sessions.
I think they swim at Hampton on Tuesday and Thursdays 7-9pm right when it’s kids bedtime and like APM said it’s just a drain on the family
We’re less than that per year. Just over half of that in fact
Article here from Triathlete mag (US focus) on costs of triathlon. It’s about 18mths old but came up on a FB feed this morning
This year £75
Swim sessions are an additional £2 per
Race Organisers webinar…i wasn’t present and so it is second hand…
Possibly insurance increase and possibly the need to plug the 6 figure shortfall in the accounts…
ZoomX foam already in this years Nike trail race shoes:
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My 20-something neighbours were all into triathlon a couple of years ago and did the full M-dot thing.
This year they’re into ultras. I think they’re doing a multi day ultra in Tanzania 
The Instagram crowd seem to have discovered ultra running 
