Rock N Roll Run Feb 26-27. Road Closures...

https://www.runrocknroll.com/las-vegas-road-closure

Click on "Course, Road Closures and Access Information", which will give you the details of road closures for the saturday 5k and sunday 10k/half marathon as well as the course maps. Resorts World is the sponsor for the race this year and their hotel big screen will be showing all the runners in case anyone is interested in watching on the big screen. I am running the 10k.

The 5k on saturday is downtown las vegas (will not affect the casinos under the canopy, but will affect the Grand, 4th st side of the D and the events center, and El Cortez)

Saturday Feb 26th downtown road closures https://cdn3.sportngin.com/attachments/document/1a5d-2620942/RNR22_LV_5kAccessNotice_020222_cc__2___1_.pdf#_ga=2.13757940.230791163.1645430826-355626588.1639542629 Some roads will start closing early, so be prepared. Some spots will close as early as 9am and other parts of the course around noon and rest by 2pm. The 5k run starts at 5pm and is an hour long, which will slowly start opening some of the roads after. Then there is an invite only concert for all runners and their guests at the events center next to the D at 7pm.

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The 10k and half marathon is uptown running on the strip. The 10k starts at Planet Hollywood to the welcome to las vegas sign, turns around to where the Wynn is, then ends at the Mirage. The half marathon starts at planet hollywood to las vegas sign, turns around to las vegas blvd/fremont street, then turns around ending at the mirage. From Mirage to planet hollywood las vegas blvd will start closing at 9am, rest by noon. The 10k is a 2 hour time limit and the half marathon is 4 hours, both starting at 430pm. The strip will start opening back up slowly at the end of the half marathon and should be fully open by 11:30pm.

Sunday Feb 27 Road closure times INCLUDING some freeway exits on the 15. Please read if you are planning on being on the road at anytime on Sunday. From Mirage to https://cdn3.sportngin.com/attachments/document/d6f3-2617853/RNR22_LV_RCB_020222_cc__1_.pdf#_ga=2.207348816.230791163.1645430826-355626588.1639542629

 

Also, if you plan to run any of these races, do not wear your "runbacknroll" shirt out in public places, as the locals and any tourists inconvenienced by the road closures may be inclined to direct displeasure towards you. I speak from experience on this.

 

For every one person that comes out to cheer there are probably 50 who are upset about the road closures a race will bring. It sucks to hear but to be expected. I also wonder how many unassuming tourists are going to be a little upset about the races taking over sections of downtown and the Strip for a few hours.

 

There's billboards about road closures warning people to be prepared so, you can't say no one knew. It will be interesting to try to navigate that day though hahaha.

For everyone that doesn't like it, there are several that are. I'm sure wearing your shirt to commemorate an awesome marathon won't be the end of the world, even if you catch some bad attitudes. Some people are just grumpy.

Thank you for linking the website, this will be helpful as my dad is staying on the Strip this weekend.

 

The marathon totally catches the arriving "unassuming" tourists off guard, esepcially when those trying to get to hotels.

 

The website even lists all the affected casinos and if you click on one, it will tell you how to get to it. Has to be through the back.

 

As someone who lived by the finish line of the NYC Marathon for decades, I'd be pissed at anyone getting pissed about the closures. It's a tourist corridor. Locals aren't spending a lot of time going to/from the tourist areas, especially on weekends, and it's the tourists that drive this town's economy. You can still get where you're going, especially with all the pedestrian overpasses; it makes no more sense than getting angry at the earth on the 365th day of its trip around the sun. As a current local, I would strongly encourage anyone getting salty about some limited, brief closures in the resort corridor to grow up.

 

The map Sonya posted is for the 5K only. The half marathon starts near Planet Hollywood and heads south about 3 miles before turning north and going to downtown and then back to start/finish line, virtually all of the route on the Strip.

 

I am here and running the half marathon. Staying at South Point, so not exactly sure how I am going to get to the starting line, other than to call an Uber early and hope for the best.

 

It's too bad hitch-hiking went by the wayside. Used to be a coast-efficient way to get around and in the spirit of helpfulness, many a vehicle would actually pick you up. I remember doing it quite often in the 70s with much success.

 

As someone who ran the race and had an absolute blast, I want to thank a local for making your city such an open, welcoming, and awesome place to visit and set a half marathon PR (1:24.21! TR coming soon )

 

I had a blast too but too many walkers! Had to jog around so many of them! and even worse they put me as a runner in the brown corral, which was the last one of the day. They need a corral specifically for walkers, no reason for this. It messed up my time a bit having to jog around a bunch of people. When I signed up I put 2:20 for my half mile time even though I am running a 10k and never ran the half before. I was not expected to be put with a bunch of walkers. I wonder what time I should of put when registering to avoid running around a bunch of walkers. It is very annoying. I did the 10k in 1:17 and I was expecting it to be a little bit faster, at least 1 hour. I have been training at home 10 minute mile and sometimes doing 3 miles making sure my legs keep the 10 minute per mile pace.

 

Unless you’re at the front of the first wave, it’s very hard to avoid walkers. Every race is different but you’ll see walkers within the first 1km even starting in an early corral.

 

probably less walkers starting in the early corral. The last corral there was way too many. There needs to be a walkers corral to avoid this from happening and they need to go last. Dont know why I even ended up in the last corral in the first place, maybe because I signed up late? I wonder what time I should put as half marathon time next time to avoid getting the last corral. What time should I put next time?

 

Not sure why it would have asked you for a half-marathon finish time if you were registering for the 10k, that seems like a glitch in the registration system. I would always be as accurate as possible when entering your finish time. They ask this to figure out how to sort everyone and the more accurate those times are, the better the experience for everyone. Put your goal time down.

For what it's worth, I was in the first group for both the 5k and the half and I saw people walking within the first 1k in both races. The 5k seemed to have more of this than the half. Ideally, people who are planning on walking and are in one of the first groups should stay over on the right if possible but that doesn't always happen. I don't blame them at all, this was a miss on Rock N Roll's part and they should have had smaller waves in my opinion. There were however close to 32,000 runners over the three distances. I know there were over 16k registered for the half alone. It's hard to manage crowds like that and I know they did their best with the staggered start but I feel like they might have been able to do a little more.

 

I am confused as to whether you actually ran the 10k or the half. You should put a realistic expected finish time for the race you are singing up for; and sign up as early as possible in order to get the appropriate starting group. I was toward the front of the first group (but not in the very front) and achieved distance from most of the pack within the first mile. Never dealt with any crowding at all after that. Often it was just me and a few other people with LV blvd to ourselves, but I admit that finishing in the top 100 means my experience in the race wasn't representative of how things were for the masses. That's as humble of a brag as I can muster, sorry!

On my way back up LV blvd (after the turn around at the sign) I saw most of the blue group; and it did look crowded with way, way, too many walkers. I think some folks clearly lied about their expected finish time in order to get in an earlier group.

 

I ran the 10k but when signing up they asked for my estimated half marathon time which I had no idea because I never ran a half marathon before. I think I put 2:20 for half marathon finish because I average 1:10 for 10k so I just timed it by 2. I gotta figure out why I was in the last start time group with mostly all walkers. The whole time running I had walking obstacles and hated it. I actually had good pacing going at times and a lot of times had to slow down to get around these walkers.

Do you have any idea why I was put in the brown group which was the last group? Was it because I signed up late like in January? And how I can prevent this from happening again? .I shouldn't have been passing walkers the whole race and there should have been a time where it was mostly all runners but it wasn't. I was passing a lot of runners too. Asking me a half marathon time when signing up for a 10k should not have been a question for 10k sign ups. All the other 10k sign ups had the same question but don't remember what time they put. I definitely don't want to be at that start time again next year if I do this race again. I was expecting to start at 430, NOT almost 530!

 

Id say it was a glitch/typo on their registration form that caused the confusion. You put your estimated half marathon time in the form, but were registering for the 10k, so that put you on the slowest starting group. I'd email them with your feedback about this confusing wording, I've found the organizers very friendly and responsive

 

This was pretty evident during the 5k. In fact I overheard one guy saying he moved up because he wouldn’t have been able to finish the race in the allotted time if he was in his assigned corral. I’m not sure if people are intentionally trying to move up or underestimate how long it actually takes to cover a distance.

It’s possible that @gutshotSF is correct and the system took the 2:20 finish time as your expected 10k time however the time limit for the 10k was 2 hours. I would think it would either not accept a time over the time limit or someone would have reached out to you.