i was planning to wear one tll someone mentioned last time we talked about this how much you miss wearing one as far as crowd interaction goes, the more I thought about it the more sense it made. I ran the White Rock with one and it was basically like a training run with a bunch of other people.

I believe the race is allowing them for casual runners. According to USATF, they will allow runners who are not competing for prizes to wear them if the local race is OK with it. MCM says they follow USATF rules.