[Rick Lee]

Unless they've changed the route since I ran it, the race starts at Ft. Wadsworth, which is just on the Staten Island end of the Verazzano Bridge. That's not an easy place to get to without mass transit. My folks drove me there from NJ, which means over the Outerbridge. But since you immediately run across the Verazzano into Brooklyn, anyone who wants to watch along the route needs to get there. No spectators can stand on the Verazzano during the race. I was packed in like a sardine and couldn't run as fast as I wanted to for the first 10 miles. I can't see how this race would be logistically possible under the current conditions.