This was a major bucket list race for me. My husband and I spent a few days in Vegas before the race and I could not wait to run down the strip at night. Like any RNR race, the crowd was insanely large. While I loved that we got to run down the strip at night, it seemed like the entire day had to revolve around the race. We boarded the monorail to head to the start line around 2 for the 4:30 start. Once there, I waited more than 30 minutes to actually reach the start line which seemed fairly long since I was in corral 8.

We had some pretty unfortunate weather with insane wind gusts and crazy rain, but that is not race organizer's fault. Running down the strip at night really was neat since it felt like everyone was looking at us (#Rockstars), but it seemed to be lacking the "fun" vibe that I anticipated feeling. Overall I had a very lackluster feeling. Majority of aid stations were out of water and the ones that did have water, it didn't seem to be clean. I'm not sure where they got it from, but it had weird specks in it and tasted gross.

After FINALLY finishing, it took what seemed like hours to exit the finish area. I was feeling very ill and began to feel claustrophobic, but there was no end in sight. My husband is a firefighter and he was able to run ahead to get some milk and chips for me to snack on since my blood sugar was so low. Once we made it through the finisher's area, we had to wait in an even longer line to get the special medal for doing both the half marathon and the 5k. The volunteers were out of water and Gatorade when we tried to ask for it.

I wish this race was more special to me. Yes, I'm glad I did it because it was a cool experience, but I would never do it again.