Hundreds of runners were lined up with no place to go early Saturday morning when the Santa Barbara Veterans Day Half Marathon was canceled 45 minutes after it was supposed to start.
Police officers assigned to the race determined that it was unsafe to proceed because hardly any volunteers were deployed to monitor the 13.1-mile course along the waterfront into the Mesa.
“It’s on me,” race director June Snow said in an interview on KEYT. She confessed that rustling up volunteers was a task she put off and ultimately failed to accomplish.