A CGA license is R120 this year for seniors (not sure how much is going to ASA, so I will treat them as one affiliation). (I am excluding juniors from my very rough calculation) If we take Comrades runners, +- 20 000 runners, that is R2.4 mil a year that CGA/ASA is making. Add another 20 000 (complete guestimate) Non Comrades runners that belongs to clubs - another R2.4 mil a year. Temp Licenses at races cost R35 (2020 cost, let's ignore the R100 for a 42km). Let's say 40% of runners don't have licenses and there are +- 3000 runners per race (on average, including the 10km distance). There is a race almost every weekend of the year. For argument sake let's exclude 10 Sundays. For 42 races the cost is roughly R1.8 mil Each club must pay an affiliation fee per year. That is R450 per club and R1000 for corporate clubs. (CGA's k@k website keeps crashing so I couldn't find the list of registered clubs) Let's add another R100k. There are race levies per race to be paid to CGA. 10% of the entry fee per finisher... Let's work on 3000 runners and 80% of the field finished. On average a 10km race costs around R100, a 21km around R200 and 42km around R300. If we split a race 40% 10km, 40% 21km and 20% 42km that gives us R43200 per race for 42 races. Total of R1.8 mil (in 2020 Johnson Crane paid R350 000 as race levies.... so I think my sums are completely wrong) Then they get sponsorships they print on the numbers that they always moan about showing. In total CGA/ASA is making (a very very rough estimate) R 8.5 million a year for doing absolutely nothing. Please explain to me what they do with all this money? What are they doing for the upliftment of our sport? I love my running club and my running friends I made at the club. I am still in two minds if I will join again this year.
