The 34th San Francisco Marathon will be weaving its way through the city on Sunday, tearing through the Lower Haight around mile 20. Here's what you can expect.
The course enters our neighborhood from the west, down Haight Street. At Scott, there's an alternating detour -- some runners are diverted down Scott to Waller, where they continue eastward to Buchanan. The rest continue eastward on Haight and turn right on Buchanan. Then the course continues south on Buchanan to Hermann, where there's another alternating detour. Everyone connects again at Guerrero and continues south. It sounds confusing, but it's really not. Here's a map: Haight Street will be closed to traffic from 6:30am to 11:45am. If you need to drive across Haight, you can use Steiner or Fillmore when there are breaks in the race -- so expect delays. Meanwhile, Muni should be even more of a nightmare than usual. The 71, the 6, the 22, and the N all "will be affected," according to the unhelpfully-vague SFMTA website. But why would you want to leave the neighborhood? Get out there with a cup of coffee and a bagel and cheer your hangover away. Maybe it'll even inspire you to add running to your regular fitness routine. (You have a regular fitness routine, right?) For more information, visit the Marathon's website.
The course enters our neighborhood from the west, down Haight Street. At Scott, there's an alternating detour -- some runners are diverted down Scott to Waller, where they continue eastward to Buchanan. The rest continue eastward on Haight and turn right on Buchanan. Then the course continues south on Buchanan to Hermann, where there's another alternating detour. Everyone connects again at Guerrero and continues south. It sounds confusing, but it's really not. Here's a map: Haight Street will be closed to traffic from 6:30am to 11:45am. If you need to drive across Haight, you can use Steiner or Fillmore when there are breaks in the race -- so expect delays. Meanwhile, Muni should be even more of a nightmare than usual. The 71, the 6, the 22, and the N all "will be affected," according to the unhelpfully-vague SFMTA website. But why would you want to leave the neighborhood? Get out there with a cup of coffee and a bagel and cheer your hangover away. Maybe it'll even inspire you to add running to your regular fitness routine. (You have a regular fitness routine, right?) For more information, visit the Marathon's website.
