How much more would you be willing to pay for an event to have a real contingency plan? Would you be willing to pay 75%-100% higher entry fees to better insure the event is held?
Yes, I absolutely would in the case where I'm traveling to a non-local event. In this case, the registration fee was minimal compared to the cost of airfare and lodging. And I'd much rather my money go to swimming than to an airline or a hotel.
And in the contingency plans 1-3, if the weather forecast is unfavorable for the event 3 days, 2 days and 24 hours out, with calmer and warmer weather predicted just a few hours after the scheduled start time, perhaps the call to delay (either hours, a day or to a future date) could be made well in advance and it would not result in additional costs?
As for contingency plan 4, I was thinking less of inclement weather, but more along the lines of the water temperature, level or quality not being suitable, which would likely be known well in advance and other plans could be made. See my example in the post here where our team is hosting the 2016 10K National Championship and we are already discussing possible contingency plans should water levels be low like they were this year.
I don’t believe we ask our national championship bidders if they have contingency plans, but I’ll ask the Long Distance Committee to consider this going forward.
I think that's a great start! At least it will be discussed :)
How much more would you be willing to pay for an event to have a real contingency plan? Would you be willing to pay 75%-100% higher entry fees to better insure the event is held?
Yes, I absolutely would in the case where I'm traveling to a non-local event. In this case, the registration fee was minimal compared to the cost of airfare and lodging. And I'd much rather my money go to swimming than to an airline or a hotel.
And in the contingency plans 1-3, if the weather forecast is unfavorable for the event 3 days, 2 days and 24 hours out, with calmer and warmer weather predicted just a few hours after the scheduled start time, perhaps the call to delay (either hours, a day or to a future date) could be made well in advance and it would not result in additional costs?
As for contingency plan 4, I was thinking less of inclement weather, but more along the lines of the water temperature, level or quality not being suitable, which would likely be known well in advance and other plans could be made. See my example in the post here where our team is hosting the 2016 10K National Championship and we are already discussing possible contingency plans should water levels be low like they were this year.
I don’t believe we ask our national championship bidders if they have contingency plans, but I’ll ask the Long Distance Committee to consider this going forward.
I think that's a great start! At least it will be discussed :)
