Answering the question wrote:
Gear = ~$200 for shoes, shorts and sleeveless shirt.
Everything else = $0
It’s not a cheap hobby.
Wow most people here spend a lot. I'm like this poster here.
Running is a simple activity - don't overthink it - as Wejo once said. You only need basic shoes. I spend like $10 or $30 or $50 on different types of shoes. That's it. already have a bunch of cheap T-shirts and singlets that I've worn for years, so there's no need for me to spend on apparel.
froogle wrote:
Answering the question wrote:
Gear = ~$200 for shoes, shorts and sleeveless shirt.
Everything else = $0
It’s not a cheap hobby.
Wow most people here spend a lot. I'm like this poster here.
Running is a simple activity - don't overthink it - as Wejo once said. You only need basic shoes. I spend like $10 or $30 or $50 on different types of shoes. That's it. already have a bunch of cheap T-shirts and singlets that I've worn for years, so there's no need for me to spend on apparel.
Don't you enter running events? Don't you travel to some of them? Those are costs.
Probably only $60 on shoes
I am in high school track and cross country so most of my races are played by the school but I did one 15$ road race
I have about a 100$ GPS watch but I bought that last year so that would be zero
In total 75$
This year I only spent on shoes and race fees. Technically I can also say I spent money on gas on the days when I drove to run on the bike path, but that's it. I didn't do travel for races and have accumulated enough gear so that I really didn't buy any this year. Since I get shoes on the cheap and only ran about 8 races I'd put the total around $500.
This is going to be painful to add up:
Hotel for Boston Marathon 2018 (2 nights) $1500
Marathon in August, west coast: flight 800, Airbnb 300, fee 100, car rental 200 = $1400 (combined with hiking afterwards)
new training shoes: 100
apparel 150
fees local half marathon and 3x 5Ks: 150
garmin forerunner GPS watch $250
boston marathon fee for 2019: $250
Total: $3800
Regrets: 0
Shoes: $94
Shirt: $24
Race: gift ($70)
Travel to race and some training runs: $8
Total: $126
Probably somewhere between 1.5-3k.
Some gear (moved so threw a bunch of running clothes away and bought about 2-300 of new stuff), some shoes (probably round $500, half of which was a VF4%), entry for races, including some races for 2019, coach, club, gym.
Luckily got some free gear and race entries from Adidas earlier this year or it would’ve been more.
Depends on how you count cost.
If you only count gear and races, probably only less than 500 dollars.
If you count extra food I had to eat due to running more.
If you count the time I spent running and say it cost me x amount because I could've been working even more.
Great question.
Around $750 including a $58 for a pair of shoes.
"Hotel for Boston Marathon 2018 (2 nights) $1500"
You are going to nice hotels. I hope the hookers where included in the price.
Shoes: ~$230
Race Entries: $55
Extra Consumption (Calories): ~$700
Though the 2 races I ran I won around $300 worth of stuff. If not for needing $2 of extra food a day minimum, than I’d be at a net positive.
Former Troohy Wife wrote:
Gear
Entry fees
Spectator Fees
Periodicals
Video Streaming Subscriptions
I’ve spent $50 on a motel room, whilst me and your wife ‘go running’.
$1029 on 17 race entries
$472 on 7 pairs of shoes
Have no idea what I spent on other gear or travel cost (6 out state marathons)
Shoes: ~$1000. 9 different pairs between everyday trainers and workout/racing flats
Races: ~$300. Didn't race much compared to other years
Travel/lodging: $500. One flight (only $100 RT)
Shoes - $250
race entry fees - $15
gas to and from races - $25
Running club fees - $50
clothing - $25
opportunity cost - $1.5million
Since we're all hobby joggers here, it probably doesn't make sense to try to account for opportunity cost or other activities you could have been doing. Presumably we're acting at least semi-rationally so that the time spent running is more valuable to us than whatever else we could have been doing with our leisure time. Otherwise we would have done that instead.
BlueNorther wrote:
This is going to be painful to add up:
Hotel for Boston Marathon 2018 (2 nights) $1500
Did you get a hotel in the city or a suburb? I know they will all jack up their prices that weekend but there must be cheaper options outside the city.
I don't think I've spend more than about $125-$150 per night ever in my life.
"Where" were the hookers, Gordon?
Gordon Gekko wrote:
"Hotel for Boston Marathon 2018 (2 nights) $1500"
You are going to nice hotels. I hope the hookers where included in the price.
once a responder wrote:
Since we're all hobby joggers here, it probably doesn't make sense to try to account for opportunity cost or other activities you could have been doing. Presumably we're acting at least semi-rationally so that the time spent running is more valuable to us than whatever else we could have been doing with our leisure time. Otherwise we would have done that instead.
+1. I always thought I'd get a lot more done if it weren't for running, but when I tore my achilles I found other ways to occupy the time, there's only so much time you can spend productively working.
3 cheap but good trainers at Kohls: 175
Houston: air 450, hotel, 400, entry 165, travel, 65, food 100, Total 1230 - wow!
Boston: entry 185 (I’m local), jacket 110 (sorry!)
Other races: 250 entry fees, mileage at 55c/mile, so about 550 for 10 other races.
Physical therapy copays of $20 each: about 300
Physical trainer to do what the PT couldn’t: 500
Misc gear: 100
Total:. $3,400 - A lot more than I expected. Kind of an eye opener. Worth it, though. Thanks for asking.
Every time I think about $ for traveling to a race I think of Kip Litton, and that he had to spend between $500 and $1000 on each race he cheated in. It makes his story even more bizarre.