SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For thousands of Bay Area runners, this year’s San Francisco Marathon has been a massive disappointment.

On Tuesday, participants received an email stating that a mistake had caused organizers to miscalculate one of the half marathon courses.

Instead of being 13.1 miles, the course through the city was actually only 12.6 miles.

Radhika Bhalla was one of the marathon’s participants. She says she figured out something was off while she was running and looking the mile markers.

“It was confusing in the beginning. There’s a little bit of like, maybe over time someone made a mistake, the next mile will be longer, we’ll make up for it,” Bhalla said.

Bhalla says while she just took up running this year, she’s come to love the sport. She tells me Sunday’s mix-up makes her feel like she’s been cheated.

“I got cheated from that experience because I did spend a couple of miles just mentally being like, what’s going on, who do I listen to, what pace do I have to follow, do I look at my watch?” said Bhalla.

Similar feelings were shared by Jack Leng. Leng says the weekend’s experience has left him with an especially bad impression – not least of all because he says this isn’t the first San Francisco Marathon he’s done that’s had problems.

“To have two bad experiences, I’m like, damn what new mess up are they going to come up with when I do it for a third time?” Leng said.

ABC7 News reached out to marathon officials to get their response on what went wrong.

In a statement, they said, in part:

“We know how disappointed the second-half marathon runners are, and we are as well. Unfortunately, the course route was measured correctly, but the certification map was drawn incorrectly. Mile markers are added based on the map, thus causing the distance calculation error.”

Organizers have updated the race times for participants since discovering the mistake.

But for many runners, they think more needs to be done and they’re asking for some form of compensation.

“Some people flew in from across the country. This is one of the most expensive races out there, it’s like $230 to just register for it. So I think the consternation is definitely justified,” said Leng.

In total, around 3,700 people participated in the miscalculated half-marathon.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Encampment sweeps are continuing throughout San Francisco, but in many streets, the tents are back.

Less than 24 hours after city workers moved homeless individuals from 19th and Folsom, we found several people on the same sidewalk with tents.

We caught up with Ramon Castillo. When we met him on Tuesday, he said he was going to move his tent to another street. On Wednesday, he said he didn’t get to move it at all.

“They took my stuff,” said Castillo and added, “They towed it away. They took it.”

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We learned Ramon was arrested and cited for illegal lodging after we left on Tuesday. He mentioned feeling frustrated but was trying to stay positive.

“I’ll be okay. It happened to me too many times. This one is a different thing,” said Castillo.

During the resolution, San Francisco’s Public Works and members of the Department of Emergency Management offered Ramon a hotel room. He declined then, but he had a change of heart.

“Right now, I hope they give me a hotel,” said Ramon.

We made a call to our city contact. They asked for Ramon to meet them at their next location. We looked it up on the map and showed Ramon. He said he would be there at 1 p.m.

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We interviewed the city’s Healthy Streets Operation Center Manager on their approach.

“Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the 9th circuit vacating the majority of the injunction. Our approach and work have not really changed as of yet. So we do 72 hour noticing of the 10 locations that we address per week,” said David Nakanishi, MPH, Healthy Streets Operation Center Manager.

Their data shows a total of 41 people were contacted on Monday and Tuesday. All were offered shelter, but 34 of those people or 82% refused.

“Behavior change takes time,” said Nakanishi and added, “The challenge is that for someone who is chronically homeless to be able to move them from the street into permanent housing or even accepting shelter it’s a long process.”

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A member of the city’s Homelessness oversight commission calls the sweeps inhumane.

“The way that things are happening right now is extremely traumatic to the people that are losing their belongings. When you are outside, all you have is your belongings so to lose that, is a trauma,” said Whit Guerrero, Commissioner of the SF Homelessness oversight commission.

Nakanishi said the city’s approach is compassionate.

“The fact that we could do more 51/50’s which is an involuntary hold for either psychiatric or substance use reasons. There are people at that level on the street that it’s unconscionable as a clinician for me to leave them on the street and not try to address that. So, I think we are approaching as respectfully and with concern and compassion as we can. I wouldn’t be associated with this otherwise”

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We waited, but Ramon did not show up at the location the city asked him to meet. The city’s street team said they will follow up with Ramon and offer him shelter again.

Nakanishi said one of the reasons people decline shelter in many cases is because it’s not the type of shelter they want. For example, a single room, or a hotel room that may not be available at that time.

The team in charge of the resolutions said gaining people’s trust is part of the process.

Nakanishi said anyone whose belongings were removed can go to the Public Works retrieval site and collect their items.

The San Francisco Giants made a big move at the trade deadline, shipping away a pitcher that hadn’t played for them this season.

After spending the entire start of the season on the injured list and just before making his season debut, San Francisco moved starting pitcher Alex Cobb to the Cleveland Guardians. In the deal, Cleveland sent over Jacob Bresnahan and a player to be named later per Guardians Insider Mandy Bell.

Bresnahan is a promising pitching prospect. The southpaw wasn’t ranked within the top-30 in the pipeline, but has had a stellar season in the minors that makes it easy to understand why the Giants were interested in him.

In the Arizona Complex Rookie League, he’s had a 2.54 ERA with a 1.043 WHIP while striking out 12.3 batters per nine innings. He was recently called up to Single-A (which is where he’ll start with San Francisco) and made one start where he gave up two runs in four innings.

“He’s 89-93 with a projectable frame, so I’m also banking on some more velocity here as well. He also has a promising slider and change, along with a deceptive delivery and control,” said Next Year In Cleveland writer Justin Lada in a scouting report about the player. [He has] more control than command and I’m projecting a step forward by ranking here as well, but at this point in the system it’s more about upside for me since most of the rest of the system offers less safety anyway.”

While he may not be the most well-known prospect, he has a high ceiling and could be a solid return for Cobb.

The 36-year-old veteran should help Cleveland a lot, if he’s around the same level that he was at a year ago.

Over his two seasons with the Giants, the right-handed pitcher had a 3.80 ERA with a 1.312 WHIP.

While he’s never been someone that strikes batters out at a super high rate, he rarely walks them and is one of the best at forcing ground balls.

His contract runs out at the end of the season, making him a rental for the Guardians. However good he may be, he probably doesn’t move the needle for San Francisco. Picking up a solid prospect and a player to be named later should be viewed as a win for the front office. They’ve fought back to just four games back from a Wild Card spot, but they did that without Cobb anyway.