Registration: I registered through Raceit, but at some point it switched to active.com. The race itself is the priciest of the RnR series. When I registered, the half was $149.99 in July. If you register early (think a year in advance), it's $99.

The Expo: took place at the Convention Center Thursday, Friday and Saturday before race day. There were limited chances to purchase race day packet pick up for $40 if you couldn't make the expo. There were plenty of vendors (Garmin, local vendors, RnR gear areas, etc). Some of the vendor staff though were a bit obnoxious and too aggressive with trying to get people to stop by for their product. If I wanted to buy their product, I'd stop and talk with them. Fairly easy to get to by the monorail or an Uber

Pre Race: bag check and porta potties were available as were bananas, but the bananas were mush and not worth eating. A lot of runners were using bathrooms in the casinos before the race.

Corrals: separated into 3 waves, blue, green and yellow. Corrals were open for 30 minutes before they were closed off and waves corrals were sent off every few minutes. There were only 2 entry points (from the back and one midway through and there was security at all enterances as well as in the air, which I can't complain, however, there weren't enough entrances. People were attempting to get through to earlier corrals and stepping all over other runners. The other downside is once you were in, you couldn't get out and there were no porta potties once you got in there. Overall the corrals/start was a hot mess

The Race: flat course and easy to navigate. The start was in front of New York, New York, which was a change this year due to the Vegas shooting. The first 2.5 miles were dedicated to the Vegas Shooting victims and took you out past Mandalay Bay towards the airport before having you turn around and back down the strip. Between 3-4 miles, we passed the start and there were people still being let out of the starting gates. Between mile 4-5, we saw where we'd finish. You pretty much see the entire strip out and back if you do the half. Paris, Planet Hollywood, Caesar's Palace, all the fun stuff. We stuck with the marathoners until mile 11, where they split off. We got to the finish fairly early on in terms of groups.

Aid stations: every 1-1.5 miles or so. Water at every station and occasionally gatorade, though I wish there was more gatorade

Post race: you got medals, food, water and chocolate milk, etc. The bananas were again not worth getting because they were old. They had some sort of protein bar that didn't even look good. There was a merchandise section to buy stuff post race and areas to pick up the marathon jacket if you ran the marathon, the remix medal if you ran the 5k saturday and a Sunday race and a heavy medal if you've run more than 5 races.

Overall, I'd consider this a bucket list race. Some of the drawbacks include price and the start, as well as the amount of people. I also wish there was more gatorade involved at aid stations. If you have the chance though, do it!

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