San Diego sees $100 million impact from 2025 World Road Running Championships

You mad, bro?

I think that is an incredibly over optimistic economic forecast and number of participants expected. 10,000 for the 5K if I read that correctly? I seriously doubt that. I am sure the event, if done right, can have a good economic impact, but $100 million? Highly unlikely.

That's $2000 for each of all of the 50,000 runners.

I think that they are also projecting a lot of locals spending money to attend the concerts being proposed and families, especially international travelers, taking in the San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Legoland, Sea World, etc. while in town.

I agree that it is optimistic, but I am also surprised that Comic-Con brings in that much business.

You haven't seen San Diego hotel prices.

Comic Con is massive. Its like the Boston of the geek/scifi world.

Yeah, it’s going to be huge
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Are the courses for the elites and randos the same? I doubt the hobbyjoggees would want to run a 3-loop 5k course. That would also be a nightmare in terms of people cheating.

Move your decimal point a few spaces left, goober.

Certainly have as I live 90 miles from there but funny nevertheless. Definitely gouging will occur but I think they will be lucky to get 25,000 participants in all 3 events.

It seems high but it's actually 50,000 runners and their traveling companions- a family of 4 or more might come. It's not 50,000 runners traveling alone.

If some of them make it a vacation- stay a week, in hotels, eat in restaurants, go to attractions. It still seems high but not as high as it appears.

There was a book, in the 1980's, about the business of big city marathons. They said that the NYC Marathon brought in more revenue in two weeks than all the NYC (including the NJ footballs) pro sports teams combined in a year

I don't know what anyone's numbers of participants are based on but even 25,000 participants means a lot more people. Obviously the 100,000 would have to be adjusted down, but it's still a lot of money.

I live in NY and I'm thinking of going- I'm 64 so for age group competition.

If they really do get 50,000 runners (with families), then $100 million seems low compared to published economic impacts of other major events, including major marathons like New York, Chicago, and Boston. But the likelihood of 50,000 runners participating in this event seems low. And having enough of those runners be international and from other parts of the country to drive up economic impact is even lower. It seems overly optimistic that this can overnight become one of the largest running events in the world. San Diego, while nice, is not a draw by itself. And with this being a first time event, what do they have to show to sell the experience? Saying it will be like Rock n Roll doesn't help, because runners can have that experience at any Rock N Roll event, and the events that have copied them. That's no longer a unique experience. This event will have 6,000 to 10,000 runners, not 50K, and they will be primarily local.

I've never been to San Diego, but friends who go there say it's great.

I agree with you on your assessments. What I'm saying (and you get the economic impact of major running events but others on here do not) is that if it IS 50,000 runners the $100,000 number may not be that high.

I watched the road championship in October- it made me want to go.

I like road races so I hope this event becomes big.

Props to the organizers for getting the city behind it. Tracy Sundlun clearly has had a ton of success in San Diego with running events and glad they realized they could get the tourism board behind it.

The numbers seem optimistic but if people are going to travel for a World Road Running Champs a place with great weather is the best option.

My guess is that a lot of people didn't read the article. They get pretty specific about numbers.

They say 67% of runners will be from outside of San Diego, that's 33,000 or so.

Again- how many people is that double or triple?

I agree that 100,000 seems high but if they get all they're anticipating- Masters, etc- then it's possible.

I would have loved to get out with only spending $2000 at last couple of races I traveled to. Boston and NYC.