Aloha Athletes, I was discussing through e-mail with Cheryl the relevancy of posting weekly training runs. The size and populariity of these weekly runs varies considerably as do the locations. Sometimes there might only be two people who show up and sometimes there are 20+. In the past, we did a lot more variety of…
Feeling like at the start of the peacock race. I am at the bottom of the hill and am looking up at the mountain. Thinking what a journey it will be. I want to thank you all for the moral support and help. Aloha, George Ramos. For those who haven't heard yet, our good buddy…
Aloha Athletes, The first race of the HURT Trail Series is this Saturday 3-17-12. Race start time is 7:30 a.m. This race is an out and back run–3 miles in and 3 miles back out. It is pretty much an old jeep road with the possibility of a few small wet areas to cross. So…
Aloha Athletes, Sorry for the late posting. Cheryl and I have been going back and forth on what to plan for Saturday. Given how wet it has been and that more rain is on the way, we are taking the safe route and planning on running through Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden on Saturday. Parking is in…
Work took me to Queensland last week for a meeting in the rain forest. I was able to squeeze in a couple of trail ultras en route. First was the Maroondah Dam 50k in Victoria near Melbourne on 19th. More challenging than I expected as the scale of the profile plot was in metres, not…
Aloha Athletes, The first HURT Trail Series race of 2012 is coming up on March 17th. So this week we are planning to do a preview run of the course. Meet at 7:00 a.m. Please be quiet as we are parking in a neighborhood. This is a nice trail to start off the trail series:…
Aloha Athletes, Just a couple of quick things here. Sunday March 18th we will be running to the sun again that is the summit at Haleakala 10,032" We still dont have a REAL race director so we're continuing the unofficial RTTS as we have done the last 2 years. So this is TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL,…
Congratulations to all who participated in the Swamp Romp. I heard good things about a greatly improved course with fun, new obstacles and the usual amount of water and muck. Looking through some of the race photos there were definitely some creative costumes. A great end of the race photo courtesy of Chuck Little. Chuck…
Aloha Athletes, This Saturday is the annual Swamp Romp out at Kaneohe Marine Base. You know, where people do things like this, for fun: If you are not participating, it is pretty fun just to watch. Otherwise, find some sweet, dry trails to run. I would not be surprised to hear of someone running up…
Aloha Athletes, Time to do something kinda easy this weekend–and close to town. Top of Tantalus run. This is a great opportunity to preview one of the early HURT Trail Series races. You do have those race dates on your calendar, right? The link to the race series schedule is on the upper left side…
Aloha Athletes, Huh, you say? Yes. This Saturday, no organized training so if you are doing something and would like some company, post it in the comments below. Be safe out there! Get out and run. Aloha, Bob P.S. Many of you may be aware already, but if not, there is a new Podcast called…
Aloha Athletes, Heading back to the N. shore on Saturday. Last week's description, per Cheryl: "Absolutely the most beautiful morning at Peacock,,,cool and crisp, huge waves and whale jumping everywhere. And the best of trail buddies to share all of this …we all just hated to come down off the mountain. Lucky we live Hawaii"…
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