The infamy that arose from this race has been pretty widespread by now. But here's my take on how the race went.\n\nThe way they formatted this marathon was pretty horrid. They started the full runners at 4pm and started the half runners at 5:30pm. They divided people up by corrals per your estimated completion time. I thought I'd finish the full in 4:20, so they put me in Corral 8 for the full. For the Halfers, since there were 38,000 signed up, they had up to 41 waves.\n\nBy the time I made it to the 2nd half, they had just let the final corral go, so I automatically ran into the walkers. The final corral consists of the slowest people, naturally. Runner's etiquette is that if you're slow, you hang to the right. None of these people knew of this apparently. Also, there was a 6 foot wide area for full marathoners to run [since we'd be going at a faster speed than the half marathoners at that point] while the rest of the Strip was dedicated to the Halfers. Halfers did not adhere to these boundaries and a whole bunch of walkers and slow runners made their way to the full marathon area.\n\nAnother annoyance is that water support was on the left curb of the Strip, to the left of the full marathon lane. Therefore, if half marathoners needed water, they stampeded through the full marathoners' lane.\n\nSo yeah, I played human Frogger from mile 14 to mile 22. 8 miles of bobbing and weaving after already having run 13 miles was not exactly ideal. That being said, it was a great experience and I had a great run. I think, personally, I did my best, but I could have done better. I am very happy with my time and am looking forward to March, the next time I run a marathon.\n\nWhat's ridiculously crazy is that there were about 37,000 people that finished the race [out of 44,000 that signed up], add friends and family.. there were that many people stacked up at the Mandalay Bay. That, combined with the debut weekend showing of the Michael Jackson 'Immortal' show letting out at the same time that the marathoners were wrapping up their run, it was absolute chaos. The shut down the Strip until 10pm, so there was crazy traffic there. Then there was a shortage of cabs. The water they were supplying during the race was hydrant water. They used trashcans to store the water and hoses to distribute the water, so people were getting sick left and right. Someone posted on the Facebook wall an MSNBC article pointing out the top 10 worst cities to drink their water. Las Vegas was #3, lol.\n\nPeople were puking and passing out left and right, fights were breaking out over the cabs, it was pretty crazy. People on the Facebook wall were saying that there are hundreds of suits waiting to happen.\n\nI think this race is best kept as a half marathon and will likely return next year to run the halfie, since the halfie experience was not nearly as bad as the full-marathoners' experience.