The Real Elvis

I think this photo says it all about LV. They charged me 10 seconds towards their finish time off of my time. Sounded like a good deal to me.

Peter

New York, New York

This is the New York, New York casino. See all the familiar buildings in the skyline? Incredible. What this must have cost. Think of how much $ they must get out of it to justify that kind of investment. Wow!

Peter

LUXOR

This is the Luxor casino. It is enormous. A Sphinx, an obelisk, and a 4-sided pyramid that lights up at night like a space ship. And it probably isn't the biggest. I am awed at the amount of money that has been poured into LV since I was last here about 20 years ago. Amazing.

Peter

The End of the starting line

Now, at 7:51, I can see the end of the starting line. 27,000 runners. Of course these folks can't see the actual starting line yet. but there's no one after them.

Peter

The Running Elvi

It was hard to notice and then get a picture of runners going the other way sometimes. You can see two Elvi (Elvises? how does one conjugate a dead singer? maybe like sheep or deer - Elvee?) running along over there.

Peter

the first band playing at the LV sign

This was a R&R marathon so there were bands playing throughout the course. Most would ham it up when you stopped to take your picture. I took a picture of almost every band, though I did not take pictures of the occasional empty stage. One band I didn't take a picture of had the vocalists screaming into the mike. Couldn't tell what was being said. And the guitar work was a perfect accompaniment to the lyrics, if you understand me.

Peter

at the starting line

There is a band playing up on top of the starting line (kinda hard to see). They are starting people off by corral, not en mass. The good news is that each corral gets to take off running from the get go (versus backed up just over the starting line like in so many other races). The bad news is it is annoying as hell to be herded along like cattle. Mooo!

Peter