Originally Posted by
beachmouse
Lubec, Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick when running the Bay of Fundy half marathon. They arrange race packet pick up so your immigration paperwork for both the USA and Canada is verified then and the chip on your race bib is not for timing like it usually is but rather to check you into and out of Canada during the last few miles of the race. (Anyone with a race number got waived through the crossing rather than having to stop there)
Same type thing happens on the Detroit Free Press marathon which crosses into Canada.