Hey all, new kid here so I apologize if this inquiry is in the wrong forum or too niche. I'm planning an 18-mile day hike along the AT across Harriman and Bear Mountain next Saturday (May 5) and just noticed that North Face is hosting a big ultramarathon that starts and finishes at Bear Mountain that day. It looks like the race course avoids the AT for the most part, but I wonder if anyone has intel on whether there may be any hassles. I feel like this kind of thing isn't supposed to happen with the AT, but this is a big corporate event in the vicinity of NYC so I'm cynical.

I'm doing a one-way hike and relying on the Bear Mountain bus to get home that evening, so if anything's going to make me miss that bus, I'm hoping to figure it out now rather than later.