Aloha Athletes, Last Saturday's run sounded like it was really fun. Some surprise runners–who helped everyone learn–just because you are fast, doesn't help you finish first if you don't know the route. In any case, back for another week of fun and to help everyone learn the route, another training day out on the Run…
Aloha Athletes, Well based on some comments I saw, Peacock was beautiful this past Saturday. Hope to make it up there sometime soon. This week though we are heading to do a preview of the course for the next HURT Trail Series race in May. The Run with a View course is a fun and…
Aloha Athletes, Cheryl says back to Peacock this week. Meeting at the parking area behind the Dillingham Airfield control tower. Start time will be 6:30 a.m. It is starting to warm up so make sure you take some type of electrolytes and your sunscreen. Plan on taking with you at least 60 oz. of water/hydration….
Aloha Athletes, First, I want to thank those who commented after last week's post. Always nice to know that there are more than 3 people that read what is posted here and we appreciate the feedback. This week, Cheryl and Kat are going to lead a training run for the Top of Tantalus race. Cheryl…
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…
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…
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, 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"…
Aloha Athletes, Well you can tell the HURT 100 is finished and people are itching to run anywhere but on the HURT course. I hope that this year we can get back to more variety in the trails we run. Oahu does really have more to offer than the Makiki/Tantalus trail system or Peacock. We…
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