We think our prices are high? NY Ironman $1,200 Price Tag

[Paulst12]

The Ironman triathlon’s first appearance in the New York area may be its last after the company raised the entry fee to $1,200.

"This race may be one and done," John Korff, the event’s local organizer, said in a telephone interview today. "The

price is too high."

Ironman, which is owned by Providence Equity Partners Inc., suspended registration for the 2013 race on Aug. 13, citing feedback from customers and the logistics of staging the race in

the New York metropolitan area. The inaugural race was held Aug. 11, with a fee of $825.

"Producing an event in a large urban market is complex and challenging," according to a statement on the race’s website.

"Addressing the logistical complexity requires us to reconfigure a number of elements in our race. We need to do more

work to assess whether it is viable at a price point that our athletes find reasonable."

Refunds will be given to early registrants who paid $1,200, a 37 percent increase over this year’s fee, Ironman said. While Korff, 60, said there were minor logistics issues

that need to be addressed, the decision to suspend the registration was based mostly on economic reasons. Registration

for the 2012 race sold out in 11 minutes.

Korff, who said he wasn’t consulted about the price increase before registration opened, declined to disclose how many people had signed up for next year.He also said the decision was unrelated to the death of a

competitor in the swimming portion or the Hudson River sewage

discharge that briefly threatened to cancel the swim.

[Wheelsuck]

This race was by the sounds of it not that great:

• Water purity issues
  
• Death of a competitor on the swim
  
• Big crashes
  
• Bike Transport
  
• And of course the new entry fee mentioned above
  

 

Just read the Slowtwitch forum and be thankfull for Mr wolfe and his crew here in SA, although no big fan of his referees, IMSA seems a hell of a lot better.

[JGR]

Ive done an international race and i think our IM's were better