I've heard of the Susan Komen Race for the Cure #whohasn't, the Santa Run, the Warrior Dash, and the Color Run, which I will actually be attending in February. That is the one where you wear all white and people throw colored cornstarch at you/on you as you are running past them. #whothinksthisstuffup
Well anyways, this past weekend the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon was in Las Vegas. And yours truly was a medical volunteer with two other people from the VMSN clinic. #seriousfun
They have a full marathon and a half marathon. It is at night. And the neat-o thing about it is they have stages set up every mile with local rock and roll bands playing. Some of the local bands were the Journey Experience, Kissed Alive (Kiss tribute), Drive (Cars tribute), Purple Haze Experience, and Sixtiesmania (Beatles cover).
(Taking pictures was limited because of our location and also because of HIPAA, so these first 7 pictures are from their website.)
How cool is that?? #very
Many people dress up, actually MOST of them do. The Las Vegas edition even promotes Running as Elvis.
They also have a Run Thru Wedding Ceremony! #onlyinLasVegas
The full marathoners start at LV Blvd and Hacienda, run south past Bali Hai, then back up north on The Strip, all through the Downtown area, up MLK Blvd to North Las Vegas, go down Carey then turn around and come back to LV Blvd, back through downtown, back down the Strip and then ending near Caesar's Palace. Whew.
Needless to say there are medical tents at the end. There were multiple tents throughout the race. We were in one of the three finish line tents...our tent saw HUNDREDS of people. Probably about 300 people...in less than 6 hours.
This is our tent and about half of our team.
Runners were hypothermic. Runners were nauseated, crampy, and getting confused from the loss of salt in their system. Runners were collapsing. Lots of vomit, sprains, joint aches, scrapes, cuts, blisters, and other various things.
We had many a male client come in requesting vaseline for...ummm...let's just say friction problems. It was a self application. Definitely a #DIY. That's all I'm going to say about that.
We had a team of about 30 people, and it really was a great time. Lots of work, but I would do it again in a heartbeat!
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