Home› Chat› General Chat

How much has Triathlon cost you this season ?

jamewahjamewah Posts: 113
in General Chat
Was just totting up to see how much my bill was for this year as my other half reminded me 'how much I have spent' as I was considering another purchase for winter.

So in summery (rounded off aproximations as I don't have the reciepts to hand)
Entry fee's & open water swim fee's £150.00
Tri bars £90
Wetsuit £150
Trisuit £80
Tyres £55
Tubes & puncture repair kits £10
Bar tape £10
Tri bag £10
Saddle £40
Oakley Jawbone £150
2x pairs of goggles £30
Rear cassette £50
Pedals £40
Tri Shoes £100

Purchases for the WAT officer
New Bike £650
Glasses £20
Shoes £30
Pedals £40
Shorts & cycle jersey £80
Crash hat £40

Grand total £1825

Ch Ching !!

Anyone else wish to share their expendature for the year ?
I'm sure someone can beat this

Comments

  • TRIumphantTRIumphant Posts: 850
    I'm not even going to go there! I feel that I've single handedly ot this country out of recession since taking up Tri. Never mind, I've lost 12,500 grammes in weight, so as long as it's cost me less than £/g then I'm happy.
  • andyb99andyb99 Posts: 229
    i just cant even think about it...cause i know i've spent a lot...and i know i'm gonna spend more next year
  • hussler.hussler. Posts: 390
    here is what I have spent....

    Race fees: £660
    Travel: Approx. £1500
    Kit:
    6 x pairs of trainers
    1 x RAF Trisuit
    2 x Conti Competition Tubs
    2 x Chains
    1 x Pair of specialized S-works Road shoes
    1 x pair of specialized Tri vent Bike shoes
    1 x Livestrong Giros Ionos Helmet
    1 x Blue Seventy Helix Wetsuit
    1 x podium sport aero bottle
    1 x bontrager Aqua rack
    1 x Argon 18 E-112 Frameset
    1 x Sram Red Groupset
    1 x Pro aluminium Handlebars
    1 x Specialized Tarmac S-works Frameset
    1 x Selle Italia Gel SLR saddle
    1 x San Marco Azoto Tri Saddle
    1 x Timex Ironman watch
    8 x Speedo Trunks
    4 x Aquasphere Kaiman goggles
    God knows how many supplements.......
    £800 Triathlon Coach
    £600 Swim Coach
    Thats all I can think of from top of my head without looking at my purchases list.....

    So far for above approx £10000.... I know that my total Expenditure is closing in on £12k upto now.

    Ouch.....
  • risris Posts: 1,002
    best guesses for some of these:

    tri bars - 25
    entry fees (5 races) - 146
    tri club memberships - 45 (to date)
    hrm - 85
    tri shorts - 30
    tri top - 10
    saddle bag - 12
    glasses - 10
    2 chains and breaker - 10
    tri-bar drinking system - 1
    new wheels - 50

    bit under 450quid for the season.
    in the close season i want to sort out a wetsuit, probably some new running shoes and maybe a tri-suit.
  • willtriwilltri Posts: 436
    There's now way i'm putting that in the public domain - the missus might be watching..
    8 x Speedo Trunks
    - what you doing with them???
  • JulesJules Posts: 987
    willtri wrote:
    There's now way i'm putting that in the public domain - the missus might be watching..
    8 x Speedo Trunks
    - what you doing with them???
    Swimming a thousand miles a week or whatever Hussler does is going to wear out your Speedos at quite a rate

    Personally, compared to last year, I reckon this year's been cheap. £500 maybe, mostly on entry fees, trainers and bike shoes.
  • jamewahjamewah Posts: 113
    Thats all I can think of from top of my head without looking at my purchases list.....

    So far for above approx £10000.... I know that my total Expenditure is closing in on £12k upto now.

    Ouch.....

    that makes me feel a hell of a lot better

    oh I forgot to mention. . . and about £50 on Redbull
  • gunforhiregunforhire Posts: 457
    Ssshhh!!!
    For the love of god, shut up!
    My wife could read this.
  • GGBGGB Posts: 482
    too bleedin much ... but not as much as next year will
  • hussler.hussler. Posts: 390
    I swim around 10-15km a week so all that chlorine rots my speedos faster than anything you can imagine.... and as I have now found somewhere that sells speedos for £2 each my expenses will drop a little and they suddenly become items that are disposable:)
  • FlavadaveFlavadave Posts: 749
    No idea how much I've spent but I'm sure I could buy a small car with it.

    Next year I'm going for a family saloon
  • gunforhiregunforhire Posts: 457
    The bike I'm about to buy costs more than I spent on the family car.
  • MowfMowf Posts: 272
    Sod all:

    Entries fees and a race belt for the one time i forgot to take it the event and it was non-wetsuit swim and so it was the only event where i have actually needed it.

    Probably about £300 in all. I'm still on the same crappy kit I started on. Hey ho, at least i know that all my improvements are down to me!
  • combatdwarfcombatdwarf Posts: 258
    Somewhere over £5K...I think

    Not an exhaustive list but a few key items
    Entry fees £750 (without travel/accom/etc)
    Isaac Sonic frame £450 (bargin )
    Isaac Jouls Aerotic fram £650 (also a bargin)
    SRAM Force 2010 set £350
    Build for bikes £100
    SRAM wheels £800
    Trisuits/choes/other clothing £300
    Wetsuit £350

    Plus sundries.......

    Who said it was cheap to get fit....

    I.
  • durhamvamdurhamvam Posts: 246
    I hate to think

    but the new bike alone was more than 5 times the cost of the car...... (it's a very, very cheap car )

    and then there was the tri suit and the trainers and the entry fees and the race belt and the swim suit and the googles and the wetsuit and the............. hope the HAT officer's not watching
  • pacman2102pacman2102 Posts: 247
    I dare not think as I have been a training camp aboard bought a new tt bike and enterd about a half dozen races and that in my first full season as well as buying loads of kit . If I had to put a figure on it I would say about £5 k not as much as some but more than others .

    Got to admit £10k is a lot of money for anybody without sponsorship or a few million in the bank or is pro , but can't think of a better way of spending money and by god you can spend on on tri kit if you want to .

    Next season investment will be a new set of wheels for my tt bike and a ne wetsuit due to now being a keen lean fighting machine rather than just mr normal , lost over 2 stone during the year and seeing the benefits

  • huwdhuwd Posts: 228
    Healthy investment/unhealthy obsession.

    I think that considering I seem to spend most of my time on the net drooling over bike porn I clearly haven't spent enough!
Sign In or Register to comment.