Pros: The AWESOME volunteers who worked their butts off for free and all the people cheering us on!!! All you good-hearted volunteers need to find a WORTHY CAUSE to volunteer next time!! A Children's home, a convalescent home; help the homeless...these people (RnR Marathon Las Vegas) are GREEEEEEEEDY!!!!\n\n\nI purchased airline tickets to come here, stayed 2 nights the Hard Rock, took Monday off from work and paid $150 to run this DISASTROUS CLUSTERF%$K of a race!!??!! \n\nMost disappointing thing was how I spent months training hard and sacrificing time with friends and family so I could truly do well on this race!! I couldn't even race it because there were TOO MANY PEOPLE!!!! Dodging bodies was what it was actually....the entire time!!!\n\nRock n Roll Marathon Swag bags ran out so I got a lovely \""Dodge\"" swag bag. REALLY??? DODGE???\nI will promptly give to first homeless person I see, filled with small toiletries and some food, since there was NO FRIKKEN SWAG TO GO INTO THIS BAG!!! \n\nI agree with almost everything else I've read:\n\nMandalay Bay: It was pretty close to HELL on earth!!! Only we were freezing, and only fruit I saw was DARK GREEN BANANAS!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME???\nStuck in a SEA of BODIES that were slowly moving. You are tired, hungry and want a bath, but all you can do is shuffle shuffle shuffle....for a frikken HOUR till you get out of the hotel. Then its time to wait in another cab line for an HOUR!!!\n\nYet the cab driver looked at me like I was crazy when I said Hard Rock Hotel. He said how can I drive there?? Strip is still closed!!! Strip was supposed to have been open an hour earlier. So he took the freeway, which is way longer, btw, and guess what???? Freeway construction!!!! All lanes merged into one measly lane!!\nDid the race officials talk to anyone else in Las Vegas about this damn race or were they too busy counting their money???\n\nNever EVER will run one of their events again. People keep saying they were hoping for 60k people, but I distinctly heard him say at the opening ceremonies, that next year they are hoping to see 100k people!!! Greedy's not even the word to describe these people. Conniving is more like it. Making all that money and depending on all those good-hearted volunteers to work for free and your paying customers, the racers, you treat as if you're doing us a favor???\n\nYou people are PATHETIC.