Kilometric entry fee, or the marathon anomaly

Following my participation in the Cambridge Boundary Run marathon for an entry fee of a mere £8, I have decided to calculate the kilometric cost, ie. the entry fee per kilometre, of some of the races I completed in the past. All entries fees are for 2012, unless not available yet for late autumn races, in which case 2011 fees are used. EUR to GBP rate: 0.835.

Early bird rate (cheapest entry fee available)
RaceDistanceEntry FeeFee/distance

(km)(£)(£/km)
Cambridge Boundary Run42.28.00.19
Hardmoors 110177.140.00.23
Hardmoors 5588.625.00.28
Hardmoors 6096.630.00.31
Three Forts Marathon43.520.00.46
PTL (3 runners)290.0148.80.51
UfDance half-marathon21.116.00.76
PTL (2 runners)290.0223.20.77
UTMB166.0129.40.78
Belfast Marathon42.233.00.78
Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes42.237.60.89
Hyde Park Relays (internal)5.35.00.94
Watford Half-Marathon21.120.00.95
Paris Marathon42.254.21.29
Paris-Versailles16.021.71.36
Dublin Marathon42.258.41.38
Copenhagen Marathon42.267.41.60
Athens Marathon42.275.11.78


Late entry fee (most expensive entry fee)
RaceDistanceEntry FeeFee/distance

(km)(£)(£/km)
Cambridge Boundary Run42.212.00.28
Hardmoors 5588.630.00.34
Hardmoors 6096.635.00.36
Hardmoors 110177.170.00.40
PTL (3 runners)290.0148.80.51
Three Forts Marathon43.525.00.58
PTL (2 runners)290.0223.20.77
UTMB166.0129.40.78
Belfast Marathon42.233.00.78
Hyde Park Relays (internal)5.35.00.94
UfDance half-marathon21.120.00.95
Watford Half-Marathon21.120.00.95
Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes42.262.61.48
Copenhagen Marathon42.273.11.73
Paris-Versailles16.028.41.77
Dublin Marathon42.275.11.78
Athens Marathon42.275.11.78
Paris Marathon42.279.31.88


It therefore appears that I ran successively my most expensive and cheapest (kilometric-wise) races one after each other :) It also seems that the UTMB and the PTL are not so expensive after all...

But what really dominates these tables is no news: "big city marathons" are expensive, as illustrated in this graph by the anomaly at 42.195km. A result of marathons being fashionable, and market laws doing the rest?

Kilometric race fees


It would be interesting to see what are the statistics on a wider scale, though. For example if runnersworld would be keen on opening up their database...

Ultra fee

Comments

1. On Friday, March 16 2012, 10:47 by Betarista

Dear Julien, we are a small group of friends who recently started in their spare time to run a blog about "challenges" in general (physical, mental, serious or even frivolous ones).

We would like to do a short interview with an ultra-runner covering the physical and psychological preparation aspect of the challenge. Would you be interested? Or do you perhaps know someone who would be? Even runners who are preparing for their first one would be great!

In any case, many thanks for your attention!

Pablo