27,600 runners!

That's right. There was 27,600 runners at the Inaugral Las Vegas Rock n Roll Marathon. I have to say this before I start my complaining. WHAT AN EXPERIENCE! I have no desire, at this time, to ever run a marathon as big a this again. I had no idea it would be this big. Just the logistics of getting to the hotel, checked in, to our room, to the packet pick-up, back to the room, to the start the next morning, waiting for it to start(45 minutes from the gun start for me to cross the start line), getting thur the walkers, dodging other runners at aide stations, was mind boggling. The first half I ran in 2:39 which was ok. At mile 14 I blew-up. Considering my last long run was over two months ago and I suffered from a cold and a injury that I got at Goblin Valley things went ok. The last half was mostly walking with a little shuffling that I can't call running in any way. Check me out at the Marathon web site. It shows each runner crossing the finish line. My number was 20045 and I'm the fat old guy in black the other three runner passed. I will analize what went wrong in future posts, but not now. My time was 6:07:23. I have finished my 29th marathon and number 4 for the year. I have a new New Years Resolution coming up shortly. We have 12" of snow on the ground in Manti. Vegas start it was 34 and never warmed up much. All I can say is run smart so you can be consistent