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The Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas half marathon is an evening race on the closed Las Vegas Strip, held on a Sunday in late February. It is part of the Rock 'n' Roll Running Series, which describes the weekend as a running party: a half marathon and a 10K on the Sunday, and a 5K on the Saturday that finishes on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas. The half marathon starts on Las Vegas Boulevard at New York-New York and finishes on Las Vegas Boulevard at The Bellagio, with the entire course on the Strip. The start is at 4:30 pm, so most of the field runs into the evening under the neon lights, and the time limit is four hours. The event traces its origin to a marathon run in and around Las Vegas since 1967. It moved to the Strip in 2005 and became a Rock 'n' Roll Running Series race in 2009. It became a night race in 2011. From 2022 the full marathon was cut to a half marathon and the event moved to February. The series' own course page notes that maps show the most recent verified information and that courses are subject to change. Entry is online through the series' registration page.
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Late February in Las Vegas is mild and dry: average highs are around 17°C and lows around 7°C, with about four days of measurable rain in the month and relative humidity near 40%. The 4:30 pm start puts the race in the late afternoon and evening rather than the warmest part of the day.
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The event traces its origin to a marathon run in and around Las Vegas since 1967. It moved to the Las Vegas Strip in 2005 and became a Rock 'n' Roll Running Series race in 2009. The first Rock 'n' Roll edition, on 6 December 2009, closed nearly seven and a half miles of Las Vegas Boulevard, and the half marathon was run entirely on the Strip.
In 2011 the race became an evening event, billed as 'Run the Strip at Night'. Sports Illustrated reported that moving the race to Sunday evening that year lifted entries to 44,000, from 28,000 in each of the first two years.
The full marathon was cut to a half marathon under a three-year agreement with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The first half-marathon-only edition was set for 27 February 2022, and the event now runs as a half marathon, 10K and 5K.
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