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Rizal Montoya
2015 REVEL Canyon City Marathon
Published: Nov. 8, 2015, 8:51 a.m. 
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Overall Rating
4/5 Stars
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Describe your race day.
In spite of the knee and leg pains, I finished my first full marathon. That was an awesome feeling! The fact that Revel is a mostly downhill course helped a lot. One thing that prevented me from giving this survey 5 Stars: the lady race official who kept hounding the last finishers to get in their car or the ambulance because according to her, "the race is done and there is no finish line and medals anymore". We were half a mile away, running and not walking, and she just kept warning and threatening us. We got to the finish line and there were still festivities, dj, music, and most importantly, medals waiting for us. She lied. To say the least, that's the ultimate moral crush to runners who trained and prepared for this event only to be forced to quit in the last mile/half mile of the race. Otherwise, the event was perfectly planned and executed. Kudos to the organizers for providing ample security, ambulances, watering/nutrition stations/photogs. Nice Sweeper also!!
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Did you PR?
It's my first full so all I was concerned about was to finish it.
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How would you describe the course?
The downhill helped- less effort exerted than on a flat course, of course. But runners should have proper downhill training or they risk early knee/quads/shin pain or injury.
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Tell us about your training.
Did fewer downslope runs than planned and that made a difference in the outcome.
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What advice would you give future runners?
Train downhill runs- a lot before you take this course. If they do, they'll be thankful they did.
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What fun things did you do in the area before or after the race?
Took a lot of pictures with our group. Did a few selfies also along the way. One of the main reason I signed up for REVEL: breath-taking views!
With the exception of that lady race official who kept hounding us to quit and be picked up at the last mile, this was an awesome experience!! Great job!!