text: Everything from my previous review no longer applies Except for my tips about carrying a camera and a small plastic bag for food and water at the finish In when I wrote my first review the race was limited to runners It was crowded but not too horrific This year Las Vegas and the race organizers apparently got greedy and allowed runners to enroll That is way too much Next year they want to have runners Not a good idea In the interest of being concise here were the problems with the race and why I will not run this again unless they get the number back down to nn The race organizers listed on the website that runners and spectators could park at the Luxor or Excalibur But apparently they failed to clear that with the casinos and the casinos would not let us in Stupid stupid stupidnn The marathon started hours before the half marathon and went out in the neighborhoods surrounding Mandalay Bay So when the marathon runners hit the strip after running the first miles unless they were extremely fast they ran right into a wall of much slower half marathon runners That just sucksnn It took forever to get out of the finish line corral area because it was backed up for pictures Just mug shots of the runners Nothing fun like pictures with showgirls like last yearnn It took us over an hour to just get out of Mandalay Bay This is just walking out of the casino and does not include walking to the car traffic etc Mandalay Bay andor the race organizers got the bright idea to schedule all this during National Final Rodeo and the opening weekend for Michael Jacksons The Immortal World Tour Piss poor planning all aroundnnIts a real bummer that I cannot do this race again I have been doing the half marathon ever since it has been on the Strip and I wanted to continue the tradition But unless the race organizers place the cap at something reasonable I cannot do it anymore