2014 was the first year they offered the Remix Challenge, which involved a 5K on Saturday night and the half marathon and marathon on Sunday. If you do the Remix Challenge, you get 3 medals. I’ll admit that I’m sometimes encouraged (blinded?) by the bling, so I was swayed to do both races.

I stayed at a race hotel, but there wasn’t any transportation support for the 5k. We walked to the race start and back to the hotel at the finish. The Saturday 5k night race started and ended at SLS Las Vegas, a new hotel on the north side of the Strip. There was a fun vibe before the race started. There were about a dozen corrals, and each corral was released every 1-2 minutes. The race course wasn’t very scenic. We started at the SLS Las Vegas, ran down Paradise Road towards the Convention Center, up a side street near the Strip past the side of Circus Circus, through the SLS Las Vegas employee parking lot, and ended back in the SLS Las Vegas adjacent lot. I knew Sunday’s views would be better, but eek – this wasn’t pretty.

The post-race headliner was Chromeo. The crowd was a bit sparse after the race, but they still put on a good show. If you ran as part of the Remix Challenge, you got your bonus medal after Sunday’s race (the half marathon or marathon you were to complete the next day).

Overall, the 5k wasn’t anything special. If I wasn’t doing the half marathon the next day as part of the Remix Challenge, I wouldn’t do it as a stand-alone event. I would only recommend the 5k to someone participating in the Remix Challenge, a local fitting in a race, or someone there to support another Remix Challenger or Sunday racer.

More on my experience here: http://racesandrescues.com/race-report-rock-n-roll-las-vegas-5k/
Separate review on the half marathon here: http://www.bibrave.com/races/rock-n-roll-las-vegas/2067#.VN0Kz_nF_Vo