Quoted from Trekkie1978:San Francisco marathon is requiring masks on portions of the course to be worn by the runners.
https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-week-health-protocols/
Roughly 7 miles of mask wearing.
Completely ridiculous.
They are going as far as to remove people from the course for not complying. Anyone who would come up with a rule like that has certainly never ran a marathon before.
I’ve already ran 2 of them. Have 2 more coming up in the next few months.
What's the problem? The only thing completely ridiculous here is your comment. Don't like the rules set by the event? Don't run in it. Can't or refuse to follow the rules? Don't run in it. It's really that simple.
Jeff