Create A Team

Creating a team is easy. Go the registration page and click the "Create a Team" link. You will then be emailed a link that you can post on social media and email to all your potential team members. Use the following links to create your team:

• REVEL Mt Charleston
• REVEL Rockies
• REVEL Big Cottonwood
• REVEL Canyon City

Here is all the information you need about teams.

Team Registration

Get three of your running buddies to register on a team with you and get a $5 registration discount each, a professional team photo at the finish, and team scoring. Teams of 12 or more receive additional benefits, including the option to create official REVEL team shirts with their team name and a custom color as well as team tent space at the finish.

Team Information

• A team captain will create a team with a unique team name.
• Each team member registers under the team name and pays individually.
• Each team member receives the team registration discount upon checkout.
• Teams can be mixed with half and full marathon runners.
• Each team member runs the entire race - this is not a relay event.
• Teams must reach at least 4 members one month prior to the event to avoid losing the discount.

Benefits for Teams of 4+

• $5 registration discount.
• Professional team photo.

Additional Benefits for Teams of 12+

• Team tent space at finish line (optional).
• Option to purchase custom team shirt ($19.99) with team name and custom color. This shirt is in addition to the race shirt included with registration. The team shirt purchase is an optional benefit and not required for teams of 12+
• When all 12 team members have registered, we will contact the team captain to arrange payment for team shirts and reserve team tent space. Payment for shirts and arrangement of tent space must take place 45 days before the event.

Team Scoring Info

• Teams will only have results scored if there are four or more team members in either distance (half and full).
• Team scores are calculated as the average time of the top four team finishers.
• A non-finisher's results will not be calculated with the team results.
• The team with the lowest average time in each distance wins

Runners say natural beauty drew them to run in the mountains

Instead of crowds of sign-waving humans, you may spot a moose. That's what Loren Anderson encountered while running REVEL Big Cottonwood in 2014, nonchalantly grazing at the side of the road as runners streamed by.

Crowd support? How about a crowd of deer, or a thicket of trees?

All three REVEL races start at least a mile above sea level, where evergreens and wildlife predominate, far removed from the metro areas below. The natural beauty draws runners to the courses. More than 20 percent of Big Cottonwood finishers and nearly 15 percent of Rockies and Canyon City runners cited "beautiful" as the factor that most influenced them to sign up.

The courses combine the logistical support of a city race — the water and medical stops, traffic control, paved courses — with the scenic solitude of a trail race.

"I'm familiar with Cottonwood Canyon," said Anderson, 44, who lives in Vernal, Utah. "It's a great canyon, a beautiful canyon, and I just thought it would be so different. You run through a national forest. It's my favorite race, hands-down."

For some runners, the beauty isn't just a bonus. It's an intrinsic part of the race experience, as important as the music and cheering crowds of urban marathons.

"It's the most beautiful race I've ever run," Mary Abbott, 37, who lives in Littleton, Colorado, said of the REVEL Rockies course. "We started right when the sun was coming up and it was the most gorgeous colors coming over the mountains."

Abbott said the beauty was almost a spiritual experience, and talking with other runners along the course took the place of basking in encouragement from residents and other supporters along a city course.

Teresa Magula, who ran REVEL Canyon City this year and shaved 6 minutes off her previous record, said the beauty of the course helped nudge her toward the finish line.

"I love running in the mountains," Magula said. "When I saw the course, I knew it was going to be great. It's the seclusion, the ability to zone out in nature, no folks cheering, the peacefulness of the course."

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