Lani Dias Neil's Staging Area

Volunteered for this race 5 years. Enjoyed being a participant this year and seeing all the improvements. I liked the expo being at Resorts World. The check-in was easy. Their wasn’t much swag, in my opinion. Just your race bib, shirt, and a couple info cards, and a sample of biofreeze.
Hope they change that. The start line has changed to New York New York and finish at Bellagio. Course is much better in my opinion. Couple years ago, there was a lot of construction.
Now that’s finished the roads are much better. We are home to F1, so most of the strip is very well paved. I did see a couple areas where it could use some leveling out but, it wasn’t bad at all. The start line and corral was very organized with everyone meeting in Park MGM area.
They used T-Mobile screen to display start time information as well as had big screens to refer to. Each color group had their own send-off at the start line. We got to vote on the song we wanted to start off too. That was cool. We stopped to take pics at the Las Vegas Sign. If you come bring a couple dollars for a tip. This awesome guy was taking pics for everyone. I wish I could have tipped him. Loved running at night on the strip and dancing to the music, when I had the energy. Well lit all along with good signage for mile points and 10k. Our LVMPD was absolutely amazing with their presence all along the course. Wonderful volunteers and water stations were spaced perfectly. Being in Vegas strip, we had supporters/spectators out everywhere. We had opportunity to take selfies on the Resort World BIG LED screen. That was awesome! I really loved the taste of FEED gel, and the BIOFREEZE Spray stations (life saver). Never felt short of Porta-potties or medical tents. Haha. I wasn’t well-trained so was one of the later finishers. I was happy to hear my name at the finish line with as much energy as if I finished as one of the first.
My only cons were: Being a later finisher, we got a bag with 3 small snack items in it. I would like to see them have pre-packed bags for later finishers so you don’t feel like you got what was left-over. I paid the same amount as everyone else.
The other con was MGM had all the elevators shut down except for 1. That was not very considerate. We had to walk from Bellagio to MGM and had to walk up 4 sets of stairs. My legs kept cramping. I was not happy about that.
Other than that, Rock n Roll Las Vegas is a great race and I think it is worth coming out to participate. I am actually signed up for next year.