Last weekend, I ran the SF Half Marathon, an expensive local favorite that lets you run across the Golden Gate Bridge or through Golden Gate Park and iconic city streets. Now that race is embroiled in some controversy, one that gaslit me into mistrusting my running watch data when I should have mistrusted the race organizers.
The news broke this week that the San Francisco Marathon miscalculated its City Half Marathon by a full half-mile and was forced to label it as a 12.6-mile race on its website after runners complained.
