It has taken me a while to write this, as I wanted to be able to reflect and share with you the experience I had running the Humana Rock and Roll Half Marathon in Las Vegas. My husband, four friends and myself ran this race on November 17th. One of us, actually, ran the marathon - and WOW did she impress. What a feat to accomplish! We flew into Las Vegas the night before and got to our hotel around 9:30pm. When you know you are going to be running a huge race the next day, the whole "arriving in Las Vegas" scene looks very different. The next day we were sure to start hydrating as soon as we woke up. We tried to sleep in, but we ended up making it only to about 9am. The race began at 4:30pm, and we had to be at the start village to pick up our race packages at two. The start village was a quick walk from our hotel, so we returned to the hotel after getting our numbers. We walked back to the start village about an hour later, and the first three of 6 of us entered