Ahhhhhhhhhhh so it's been a really long time since i have updated my blog. I figured that since i am going to be doing a lot of travel coming up soon and all of the summer activities around hawaii would be some good things to write about and share some stories, pics and videos!
So I have decided to do the Honolulu Marathon again this year, and hopefully Ryan and Mike will join me in this endeavor. i have putting in some pretty decent mileage each week since Feb but my training has been interrupted by underways here and there and of course i was outta the game for a week with a head injury from surfing! But i'm back now! mike, ryan and i were planning on the doing the Pearl Harbor 10K race until someone realized that it was scheduled on Mother's Day. Mike and Ryan both being new daddys and this being their 1st Mother's Day, we all decided that it wasn't a good idea to do this race. so i suggested that we should do the Pineapple 10K. Mike has been having problems with shin splints so we knew that he wasn't gonna be in for this one, and Ryan was putting off signing up for the race so i figured that i would be flyin solo on this one. I woke up at 5 and made a quick stop by the Lei Stands at the airport to pick up a lei for Megs for May Day(Lei Day in Hawaii) and then i was on to the race.
Of course there wasn't any designated parking so i had to find some street parking, so i saw a spot and turned into a driveway to turn around and then some lady walked behind my car and stopped as i was trying to back up. Apparently she heard me say 'what the funk' and put up my hands, she moved but the people she was waiting for walked behind my car really slowly. And of course as i pull back out, there's a damn truck pulling into my spot. ahhhhhhhhh i was pissed! Wahiawa isn't the best place to park your car just anywhere because its ghetto! So i finally found a spot and headed over to the start area where it was really crowded already. I snagged a few cups of water and did a little stretching.
So the run started and i had to pee! good thing the course circled around the block where the potties were, so i made a pit stop and then i was on the road. it's normally really crowded at the beginning of the race so i was weaving in and out and of course about at the 1 mile point we had to pass a breakfast spot and all i could smell was BACONNNNN and some fresh toast! Anyways, the race course was pretty good, it was a little more hilly than i thought but it had some good downhill spots where i could pick up my pace a little. i think they needed at least one more water station along the route and it would have been fine. I finished the 6.28 miles in 57:29 which is a 9min 15sec pace! i just wanted to finish in less than 1 hour 10 min, so i am pretty happy about my first race of the year!
So there i am with my Pineapple after the run! It was a fun race! Gonna do the Jamba Juice Banana Man Chase 5k next week and that one looks like a good time. Megan is gonna do it too and bring her dogs along, and some of her co-workers might be there too, so it should be fun!
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