REVEL Mt Charleston

James Emery

2017 REVEL Mt Charleston Marathon
Published: April 30, 2017, 6:28 p.m.

Overall Rating

5/5 Stars
Describe your race day.

Parking and bussing was easy peasy. The style of bus was wayyyyy better than using school busses. Thank you. The wet towel at the finish was great. I've had that at a few races and it always makes me wish all organizers would do that. It makes the finish area much more enjoyable with friends and family when runners aren't disgustingly sweaty
Did you PR?

Yes. 8 min pr. Previous was 3:00:20. Yesterday's revel was 2:52:24
How would you describe the course?

Excellent choice of route.
Tell us about your training.

My training was geared toward Boston 2017. I raced that and was not pleased with my race result nor did I bq for Boston 2018. I had a friend transfer me his revel mt. Charleston bib 6 days before the race. I did 2 recovery runs a week after Boston of 5 miles each. So with the tapering before Boston and then not running after it and also no recovery from it, I am pleased with how I did at revel. I feel I could have done much better with fresh legs or if I trained for revel specifically. I live in LV and knew what to expect from it. I also do 95% of my running outdoors and generally have lots of elevation. So it wasn't really a concern
What advice would you give future runners?

Practice downhill running. And some climbing late into the long runs.
What fun things did you do in the area before or after the race?

Live here