Are you serious? wrote:
Can someone confirm that teh NYRRC actually pays the City money for police support on the day of the Marathon?
I don't think they do. The event brings around $200 million in to the city. The average marathoner stays 6 days along with friends and family.
nsmb wrote:
I enjoyed watching the OT Marathon in Central Park and would certainly show up to see this style of race locally.
But how big a factor would the entry fee be? Is that extra $141 really the barrier preventing us from holding Fukuoka style races? As has been observed pages ago, the entry fee is the tip of the iceberg for all the non-local athletes after they pay for airfare and lodging.
$141 is the price of a pair of running shoes or a couple of massages. It will cost that much for a pair of decent tickets at the New Yankee Stadium.
Its New York. Its one of the Premier sporting events in the world. I've checked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and right to run the NYC marathon ain't on there.
Your entire family can be there watching you for free. Over a million spectators will be there cheering you on the whole way (except the South Bronx where they'll be giving you a suspicious glare).
If the entrance fee was $500 there would still be 40,000 people at the start line on the first Sunday of November.
Where do people get off complaining?