in the D wrote:
Prize money was this year is $1500 for first; it has been usually $3K to $5K in the past.
I figured the prize money must have been reduced. The absence of Kenyan and Eastern European runners this year was striking. (That said, I'm thrilled that local runners won both the men's and women's races.)
NYC charges $200 because that's what people will pay.
The entry fee NYRR charges for the right to run the NYC fails to cover the cost of putting on the event on a per capital basis. Without sponsors the ING NYC Marathon would not exist in its current format. I believe that the NYRR is non-profit org which publishes or at minimum makes available the cost associated with running the event through the five boroughs. If I remember correctly the ING NYC Marathon pays for the OT that the police incur while marshaling along the course which is a huge chunk of the cost of hosting the race.
Do they publish that info online, because I'd be interested in seeing how they manage to spend more than the $8 million they receive in entry fees?
dukerdog wrote:
Do they publish that info online, because I'd be interested in seeing how they manage to spend more than the $8 million they receive in entry fees?
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the do this
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A scam artist talked a crowd of developers, lawyers and architects into thinking he owned a multimillion-dollar stake in a coveted Harlem property -- even tricking the New York Road Runners and a plumber into investing $1 million each in his project, officials charged yesterday.
Henry Vargas is being held without bail on charges of grand larceny.
Vargas, 35, assembled enough genuine and forged documents to trick his victims into thinking he and his family owned a 90 percent stake in 21-41 Lenox Ave., Manhattan prosecutors said.
The Road Runners, which organizes the New York City Marathon, will get back its $1 million, but is out $300,000 in other expenses, said DA Robert Morgenthau.
The race starts out going straight for over a mile, but there were a bunch of hard/sharp turns - right before the bridge, after the tunnel, near the end, etc.
It also had rolling hills in the last 4 miles.
Why in god's name is the Grand Rapids marathon on the same day as Detroit?
There has been so much discussion on the 3 deaths over the weekend. We've hardly heard about the Marathon and Half Marathon winners. I assume they're local runners. Besides Chad Johnson, has anybody heard of the other winners?
I read somewhere that Stanko is a high school teacher and coach. I'm not sure what school, something local I believe.
dukerdog wrote:
NYC charges $200 because that's what people will pay.
With lottery chances being around 20% they could charge $500 and it would still sell out. But that's not the way non-profit should work.