On the first Sunday in November, thousands of people usually gather at the entrance to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge on Staten Island itching to run the first miles of the New York City Marathon. This year, with coronavirus rendering large-scale road races verboten, the iconic race is taking place on sun-drenched streets in San Diego, sprawling cornfields in Central Illinois and thousands of other locales across the world.
Like most businesses operating during the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 New York City Marathon has gone…