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| - Not much to say that hasn't already been said. It was cool to run on the strip at night, but that was about the best I can say about the race. Horribly planned and executed. Far too many runners, lack of port a potties on the course, water that made people (like me) vomit or have other GI distress, etc.
If you want to run the strip at night, you can... for free. Just do it at an off hour on the sidewalks during the week or a non-busy weekend (do they exist there?). Don't spend the $150+ to be crammed like sardines with your fellow man or step on or be stepped on by them, etc.
If you decide to run this, do not have any expectation that you will make a PR or PB. If this is important to you, you will be disappointed. It is nice that the RnR series really wants to appeal to/accommodate walkers and runners, but the walkers really f'ed things up for a lot of people who wanted to truly run this race.
Also, as an aside, even if the slower people HAD gotten to their assigned corral, most of them lie about their finishing time so that they get into a lower numbered corral so that they have the time to finish the race. If Competitor and RnR are going to allow walkers at their races, they need to figure out that contradiction. Since the time limit is based on the gun time and not chip time, if a walker is honest about their time and they are put in a corral toward the end, they will get swept. Running groups like Team in Training and Team Challenge encourage their members to do this and word has gotten out or people just got smart. There's not such thing as on your honor.
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