Sunday, November 3, 2013

2014 Plan - Minnesota Marathons - Cost Analysis

I wanted to follow-up the my previous post on running all of the Minnesota Marathons with my cost breakdown analysis for doing the events. The first expense is the cost of the races.
DATE: NAME: Cost Sign-up Dates
01/12/14 Zoom! Yah! Yah! Indoor MarathonZoom! $75.00 By 8/31
04/26/14 Brainerd Jaycees Run for the Lakes $55.00 By 12/31


$65.00 By 2/28


$75.00 After 3/1
05/10/14 Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon $55.00 By 12/31


$70.00 By 3/31


$85.00 After 3/31
05/25/14 Med-City Marathon $55.00 By 10/20


$65.00 By 12/31


$70.00 By 2/28


$75.00 By 4/15


$80.00 After 4/15
06/01/14 Minneapolis Marathon $79.99 No date?
06/21/14 Grandmas Marathon $90.00 By 1/31


$95.00 By 3/31


$110.00 By 5/31
07/12/14 Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon $25.00 By 6/1


$35.00 By 7/1


$45.00 After 7/1
09/06/14 Moose Mountain Marathon $75.00 Registration opens 3/15th
09/20/14 Walker/North Country Races $60.00 By 4/1


$65.00 By 9/1


$70.00 After 9/1
10/05/14 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon $105.00 Registration opens 2/1st
10/11/14 Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon $70.00 By 5/1


$80.00 By 7/1


$90.00 After 7/1
10/19/14 Mankato Marathon $40.00 Between 1/1 and 1/10


$60.00 By 3/31


$65.00 By 6/30


$80.00 By 8/31


$85.00 After 9/1
Turns out the cost for early sign-up would be approximately $795, I say approximately as I am guesstimating on a few of the races. If I signed up by the second entry cutoff period it would add another $80 and if I wait until the last entry it would add an additional $180 over early entry.


EarlySecondLast
Cost$794.99$874.99$974.99
Delta Cost
-$80.00-$180.00

So signing up early would get me 3 marathons for free,more or less.

The other costs associated with the races would be hotel or camping and travel expenses. For the hotel costs, I used $100/night with 3 of 6 events requiring us to stay for 2 nights. For camping, I assumed we would camp 2 nights for all 6 events at a cost of $25/night. For travel, I assumed 25 mpg at $3.50/gallon.

Gas Hotel Camping
$420.00 $900.00 $300.00

So the cost to run all of the marathons with gas and either camping or staying in a hotel would be between $1515 and $2295. Which works out to $126 to $191 per event. 

For some folks this would seem like a lot of money to spend on running events and it might be but speaking for myself, I don't hunt, fish snowmobile, nor do we have a cabin so in many ways it isn't too expensive a hobby, all things considered.


4 comments:

wildknits said...

Do you think you should add in the cost of shoes, gels, etc? Or is that unnecessary since you would be using those anyway during the course of a normal year?

I like the cost break down. I sometimes feel a tiny bit guilty about the cost of my "racing habit", but like you I don't hunt, fish, etc.

Mike W. said...

I thought about it but decided that it wasn't directly relevant and I buy more shoes than some so I also thought it might be misleading.

Jordan Hanlon said...

I love this idea and here is another one to add to your list. This year was the first year they ran it. Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon.

http://www.bemidjiblueoxmarathon.com/

Jordan Hanlon said...

Whoops never mind looks like you already have it on your list.

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