HURT finisher and Navy Seal, David Goggins recently competed in the Badwater Ultra Marathon. In an interesting article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Navy Seals are using ultra events and other endurance sports activities as a way to recruit potential new Seals. Click here to read the article. The article even details the entry…
Here’s a link to an article on Vermont 100 Women’s winner Beverley Anderson-Abbs. She also was the women’s winner at this year’s HURT 100. Vermont was her second of two races as she attempts to complete the Slam. Read about it all here.
Aloha Athletes ! Congratulations to everyone that participated in the Volcano Marathon and the various other distances. Of special note is the performance by 9 year old Jacob Dewald in the 10 mile race, winning the 1-13 age group in record time. What a super kid ! Back to the marathon. HURT had it’s share…
The Maunawili Out and Back is coming up on August 12. All the details are available by clicking here. This will be a fun race and remember it can be done either solo (22 miles) or as a relay (11 miles).
On Saturday, the Volcano runs were held. Lots of HURT runners participated in the different runs. Click here for the results. Congratulations to all the finishers!!
I received the 2007 HURT 100 application and other files from Jeff Huff and have updated the links on the right hand column of this site under HURT 100 Race Links. This year, the application form is a pdf document with data fields that can be filled out on your computer so we have a…
Aloha Athletes ! If you are among the many fortunate athletes that will be heading to the Big Island for this Saturday’s Volcano Marathon, good luck and have a great race ! I for one am totally bummed that I had to cancel my plans due to an injury. For the few others of us…
It looks like we may have company at Volcano. HurricaneDaniel seems to be heading our way and is on target for arrivalFriday/Saturday: http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/Gif/nep.latest.gifhttp://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html For updates on strike probability go to the following and enter zip=96720http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/StrikeProb.html Nick
The Badwater 135 started this morning. Unfortunately the web site seems to be overloaded and I have not been able to get any updates. Here’s the link: http://www.badwater.com/2006web/index.html From this you should be able to get to the live update area. I don’t think anyone from Hawaii is running the race or even crewing this…
Here are a few photo’s from Bob Murphy’s recent successful Hardrock race. Click here to view. Click the photo’s to enlarge them.
Lets get the fundamentals out of the way first; this was my first attempt at 100, and I dropped out at 55 miles. However, aside from not finishing, it was a great event and well worth coming back for. The course is described as hilly, but I would call that an understatement – these are…
All, Not many people are capable of accomplishing things that legends are made of. Yet, Stud Muffin Murphy (SMM), (Bob to most of us) is on the precipice of accomplishing such a feat. The details: 1.) SMM completed his 500th mile at HURT in 2006 with a 100 mile finish. 2.) SMM recently completed the…
HURT enjoys the privilege of partnerships with State and Federal agencies that hold the responsibility of protecting Oʻahu public lands. Those partnerships are based upon mutual trust and cooperation and shared concerns for the ʻaina. To keep that trust and continue to be provided the opportunity to host trail events, we (HURT) must understand and abide by rules that govern our partner agencies.
HURT does organize and facilitate official trail maintenance only when coordination with our partners has occurred. All trail work is performed under the supervision of a permitted individual with advance permissions. Some trails are off-limits for HURT to perform trail maintenance due to the sensitive flora. No HURT trail maintenance will occur outside of these parameters.
HURT and its partner agencies require that no self-directed trail maintenance occur on publicly-owned trails. Any individuals performing trail work outside of official HURT-organized events, are doing so on their own accord and will be held personally responsible by State and Federal agencies for any violations. Such activity could jeopardize our relationships with partner agencies and lead to inability to use public lands for our events.
