5/5 Stars

Excellent.. Everything went smoothly. Course is awesome, my all-time favorite. Weather was perfect. Volunteers were helpful and enthusiastic. Great medals.. Post race activities were top notch: massage, excellent band, pancakes,pizza,cherry coke, and smooth bag pickup.

I PR'd in the half marathon. I also PR'd in the 5k and 10k en route. I qualified for Boston here last year, but wanted to try the half this year.

The best. I love to run downhill.

In Kansas, we obviously don't have this type of course, I just do the same training as I do for flat or small hill half marathons.

It's a little cold waiting for the race to start, so dress warmly. I ran in Hoka Clifton 4. They were perfect for this course.

I traveled from Kansas for the race. Due to work commitments and flight schedule I didn't arrive until Friday evening. Last year, I enjoyed a visit to the Morman campus.

5/5 Stars

It was great. The out and back was challenging, but it was a good race. Well organized.

Yes. Missed Boston by 1 minute. Ha!

Downhill, but the out and back chewed me up and spit me out.

Average training. Nothing special. About30 miles a week.

Save enough gas for the out and back.

None

5/5 Stars

Great course, support staff was first rate, amenities at finish line were great. Overall a great experience.

Yes - by 15 mins

Beautiful route, flat section at the end was tough

Ran 8-10 mile runs down Big and little Cottonwood canyons on Saturday's. Training downhill is important

Keep your eyes up and enjoy the scenery. Know where the water stops are. Train downhill as often as possible.

Not much... lines were long. Loved the live music and the vats of ice water with cold towels was very nice

5/5 Stars

5/5 Stars

Fun and exciting.

Yes!!!

Fast!

Trained for 3 months while I was doing triathlons

Run down hill a lot. The quads burn coming down that canyon.

Nothing

4/5 Stars

The bus meeting point was good, parking was sufficient. Not enough space at the starting area. Potty lines were standing on top of people. Start was good, race was good. Multiple photographers was awesome, I'm excited to see my pics. The out and back section was ugly. Exposed, no shade, smelly by industrial businesses. The finish was good. Excellent management of gear bags. I liked have stubs to shorten the lines at vendor booths. It was helpful to have food there, although i missed having chocolate milk for recovery. The parking lots were extremely hard to exit from. It took me 30 mins to get out of the parking lot. The finish line festivities closed of the other exits from the lot i was in.

Yes, i PRd. My previous was 4:25, today i got 3:56. I'm not at a Boston level, and that's ok. I'm very happy with my Performance today.

Scenery was beautiful, and the elevation didn't pose any problems. The grade was really tough. While it makes it fast, i feel like i passed more injuries in this race than in other races.

I ran the Deseret News Marathon on July 24th. I then was training in general for one more full this year, but didn't pick this one until last monday. Had i selected it sooner i definitely would have trained on more hills. My plan involved 5 running days a week, with long runs on alternating weekends. 10-12 then 18-26 miles every other week. The mileage seemed to be enough, but i needed more hills!

Train hills.

I'm a local. Went to cafe rio for lunch that afternoon.

5/5 Stars

5/5 Stars

Everything was great, from registration to expo, and start to finish! I'm doing 4 of your races this year including the inaugural Mt Lemmon.

I did not PR, but didn't train to PR. I came to enjoy the race with a friend. It was his first Revel race and he will be doing more.

Beautiful and fast. Did the half this year after disliking the out and back section on full last year.

I don't really train for speed any more. I run at least a half most every weekend and enjoy the experience more now.

Remember your layers for the start up the mountain!!!

5/5 Stars

The best race I've done by far. So much fun and so well organized. I will definitely be coming back next year. Big Cottonwood is my new favorite half!

Yes

Beautiful scenery, first 10 miles are essentially all downhill. A few flat and mild uphill areas toward the end. There are several places where the grade is quite steep and it's hard to slow down.

I trained by running in a local canyon with hills to prepare for Big Cottonwood. This worked well for me. I also did a lot of strength training and I feel like that contributed a great deal to my pr.

Bring warm clothes for the starting area. I wish I had brought sweats and a sweatshirt. Get a hotel well in advance. Ours reservation was made a month in advance and most of the nearby hotels were already sold out by then.

We traveled about 2 hours. We came from Millard County in central Utah. We loved the Kodiak cakes at the finish line. We were looking forward to sodalicious but didn't know we needed money to pay for drinks and cookies and didn't have cash on us. Will prepare better next time!

5/5 Stars

Amazing as always! Revel does an amazing job which is why I love your races. How do we ditch part of that out and back???

YES! For my fourth Revel marathon I have PRed every time!!

Amazing! I really feel like this race is faster than canyon city, even withnour horrific out and back! How do we ditch it so it's a milenoutand a mile back? There has to be 2.2 miles somewhere! Even 1.5 out and 1.5 back!

Trained the course every weekend to every other weekend.

Train the course! If you're coming in from out of town, good luck! I'd say this is one tough marathon to train for for out of towners due to the elevation, and the out and back. The only way to stay on top of that is muscle memory and training it.