Erin Mikkelsen

2017 REVEL Big Cottonwood Marathon
Published: Sept. 10, 2017, 1:10 p.m.
  1. Overall Rating

    1/5 Stars

  2. Describe your race day.

    Revel is a company that caters to their half runners not the marathoners! I was so disappointed with the finish venue. I ran a 3:45 marathon, and after running 26.2 miles you need that post recovery food/drink. There was nothing left for the marathoners, everything was cleaned out by the half runners. This is the race directors fault for not planning accordingly! All that was left was warm Powerade and a pile of bananas. No finish line announcer calling out names. Runners were sitting in the ice water troff with the cold towels. I really want to wipe my face with a towel that's been sitting in the same water with someone's sweaty feet, butt and body. Dirty towels were being thrown back in, who knows how many people were sitting in there before I finished!? Volunteers didn't do anything about it! Unsanitary, unfare to other runners and unacceptable. Very disappointed in revel, they did NOT take care of their full runners on race day!

  3. Did you PR?

    Yes, but it's not entirely due to the course. I doubled my mileage from 30/week to 60/week and a lot of sprint work, tempo and interval running. I ran a Boston qualifying time, but missed my qualifying time.

  4. How would you describe the course?

    When you read these reviews you only hear about the good. Mile 4 the loop around Brighton is steep and not fun, but wasn't terrible. Miles 19-23 the out and back on the large rollers was horrible. I maintained a 7:53 pace until mile 21. After my legs went up and down hill for 5 miles, they started to cramp at 23 after getting back onto Fort Union. I lost so much time and energy on that portion. I regret choosing this course to get a BQ on, I think I would've been better off with a familiar marathon only course like St George.

  5. Tell us about your training.

    I trained 60-70 miles a week. Ran yaso 800s, hill work, tempo & interval runs, did double days 1-2x a week, and incorporated three 20 mile training runs. I averaged a 7:53 pace until mile 21. My splits that revel recorded were coming through 10 minutes slower than they actually were. Thanks for freaking my family out, they thought something had happened to me!

  6. What advice would you give future runners?

    If you're wanting to run a FULL marathon don't do it with Revel. If you're a half runner than do it, Revel caters to the half marathoners. I will never run a full marathon with revel again. I'm sure they won't post this honest review either.

  7. What fun things did you do in the area before or after the race?

    Sat in the hot tub at the hotel and went out to eat to celebrate. I came to work not to party. Came from Logan UT about 1hr 45 min north of SLC.

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