SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTED CASES OF COVID.. ### NEW AT 11... THE STATE OF CALIFORNAI ISSUED NEW GUIDANCE TODAY ON MARATHONS .. AND OTHER LONG RACES.. WHICH BRINGS THE QUESTION.. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE THE BIG SUR INTERNATIONAL MARATHON.. AND THE MONTEREY BAY HALF MARATHON.. ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER CHRISTOPHER SALAS IS HERE NOW WITH MORE FROM THE RE AC DIRECTOR. THIS WEEK WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RAC. E. BUT OBVIOUSLY COVID POSTPONED THE RACE.. AND EVEN WITH THESE NEW GUIDELIENS.. THE HALF MARATHON WILL NOT TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR.. 02:34 "Both the marathon and teh half-marathoare n destination events." TWO ICONIC RACES. .. ONCE AGAIN POSTPONED.. DESPITE THOSE GUIDELINES NEW GUIDELINES FORM THE STATE... 00:43 "If we look very closely at these guidelines, there are a lot of the parts of our monterey bay half marathon, which is traditionally held in the second full weekf o November, that would need to change. 03:36 "We're just not sure we're ready to make plans for an event this fall ." THURSTON SAID THOSE CHANGES INCLUDE NO IN-PERSON EXPOS.. NO LIVE PERFORMANCES OR ENTERTAINMENT.. SOCIAL DISTANCING.. AND A MAXIMUM OF 3- THOUSAND RUNNERS... IF EVERYONE IS VACCINATED.. 03:05 "With runners coming in we don't know vacci ne status, we haven't setp u any rules for vaccines. It's just a lot of things like that that sepcial events like ours a re needing to deal with." BUT THE BIGGEST REGULATION... NO OUT OF STATE PARTICIPANTS. 03:05 "We typically get runners from all 50 atesst, and an additional 30 or so countries." 01:28 "We don't know if the event would be financially viab ilen its altered stat" e. THURSTON SAID THE TWO EVENTS CAN TYPICALLY GENERATE 35 TO 50 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY.. 04:17 "Not havin any of those events for 2020, and 2021 means an econom ic impact loss of over 75 to close to 100 million dollars. BUT COME 2022. .. THURSTON AND ORGANIZE RS ARE HOPING IT'S OFF TO THE RACES. THE BIG SUR INTERNATIONAL MARATHONS I SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 24 OF 2022.. THURSTON AND THE BO