Flimsy reason at best. You still have most of the afternoon to do your chores after everything opens up. Entry fees pay for police OT and toilets among other things. These runs certainly aren’t free and if anything are becoming cost prohibitive to some of those who wish to participate. No one wants to run a race in HV btw.

I’m too lazy to check other subreddits but I wonder if people in Chicago, NYC, Boston, Tokyo, London, etc complain as much as people here do when big events come to their cities.