Circle Island Pace Schedule

Here is the pace schedule for the Circle the island


Landmark Day Est Time of Arrival
Aloha Tower Friday 6pm
Waimanalo Beach Friday 11pm
Castle Hospital Saturday 1am
Hygenix Store Saturday 4am
Kualoa Ranch Saturday 7am
Laie Saturday 10am
Sunset Saturday 1pm
Haleiwa Saturday 3pm
Mokuleia Saturday 4pm
Kaena Pt Saturday 7pm
Farrington Hwy Saturday 10pm
Waianae Sunday 1am
Nanakuli Sunday 3am
Makakilo Sunday 5am
Fort Weaver Rd Sunday 7am
Leeward C C Sunday 9am
Nimitz Hwy Sunday 1pm
Aloha Tower Sunday 3pm

This is assuming no problems.

Are YOU ready to Rumble...down the road?

Here we are into the second month of the HURT Trail Series, Rex, Jan and Lisa are already doing HURT loops, Huddy and Jeff are running everywhere, Brian is doing elevation training while carting around a small car on his back, Nick and Huffer did 27 at Peacock, and what are you doing to get ‘back into’ Ultra training? Has that question become something that nags at you while you knock off those 10 and 15 K street runs that are all the rage right now?

Well, relax! Paul and I have a great cure for the Ultra Runner Blues. Starting next Friday, April 16, at 6:00 PM at the base of the Aloha Tower, Paul and I will be embarking on an Island Perimeter Run. A tourist’s delight, a calm and enjoyable tour of the island, a mellow ‘getting to know you’ stroll along the calm rural roads of Oahu. You are invited to join us if you so desire. It will be a great chance to do some distance, ‘time on feet’ kind of training before the summer races slip up on us. And if you don’t feel getting to know the entire island step-by-step is quite your cup of tea, a group of HURT ladies (Cheryl, Julie, Julie, Jan, Bonita, et.al.) will be starting a relay some time Saturday Morning. You could put together a group and run along with them. Or you join us along the way for a few miles of Tropical Splendor. We will be out there until some time early Sunday afternoon.

This will be an entirely unsupported run, with no guiding authority. Each runner/walker is entirely on his own. We may have some aid along the way, but it may just be a 7/11 stage run. Paul and I will be maintaining a relaxed pace and do not intend to do better than 7 or 18 minute miles (;). We will take a few hour break at Turtle Bay. So most anyone with some minor distance training will be able to keep up with us and do the distance (135 Miles).

Paul will be doing the run as a fund raiser for the Hawaii Children’s Cancer Foundation HCCF ,nd I will doing the same for St. Francis Hospice SFH . If you decide to run you could pick a charity of your own. If you do not feel up to getting out on the Hard Hot Highway you might just prefer to donate to one of the Charities we are representing.

The Map of the planned route can be viewed at: Round the Island Map
http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/hi/honolulu/794093422714

Contact me if any of this sounds interesting to you, or for a map of our planned route, or stay tuned to Paul's Facebook and twitter accounts as he will be electronically active during the run. Aloha, Mikem.

East Side Hobble

I never like getting rid of a good pair of shoes. But there is always that moment when you realize you are just a bit slower, just a bit more sore, and perhaps a little less happy with a run, and like it or not, you end up looking down at your shoes and thinking its time to rotate them into a yard shoe. That's how it was on Tuesday night when I started looking around for something to wear for the HHH run out to Makapu'u. I have this pair of Adidas Bounce that I got at a good discount, and they looked like highly cushoned shoes, something I could wear for the road, so I bought 'em, and did a few repeats at Makapu'u and kind of put them aside and went back to an old pair of beat-up Ascics that has holes in the netting and has seen a lot of the last year of Peacock and Road. But on Tuesday night I felt that my old faithfuls had finally bitten the dust, literally. So I pulled out the green inner soul and stuffed it not to well into the new Adidas bounce and walked around the room wondering why they didn't feel like the great road shoe I was hoping for. Nice heel and the plastic doey-thingys seemed to take up a good deal of weight, but the forefoot was kind of hard. I had other shoes around but wanted to rule these out so I left them set up and headed out with them the next morning. They were road firm. Not bad if you were moving along on the heel, or running heel-toe style. But my fast walk is often a mid-foot strike or close to it, and that was hard on my feet from the get-go. I tried a bit of jogging and that felt pretty good, so I jogged out to Hawaii Kai. Good times, almost impressive for me.

Aside from a few times I stopped to take care of potential hot spots by pulling up my socks, I just kept moving. But over time the shoes began to feel really firm in the fore-foot and I by 10 miles it was becoming a bit of a burden. By 13 miles I was feeling pain in my hips. When I met Don at the Light I struggled to make the pace he was setting up the hill. I knew I was in the wrong pair of shoes. But rather than quit I said good-bye to Don and Julie and headed up the hill at Makapu'u and out toward Kailua. Now that was the Hard Hot Highway! I kept popping electrolytes, and Calcium/Magnesium but the pains didn't let up. I didn't have any cash so I just pushed on, breathing through the nagging soreness and occasional sudden burst of pain. I flagged, but I didn't quit. And I told those shoes somewhere over on the far side of Waimanalo, that even though they looked really dude-like they were not going to be invited on any more long runs. I made it to my brothers and managed to slowly move toward the pool. There was no way I could head out of there and catch the Pali back into Honolulu. Instead I had some dinner and caught the bus home. Those shoes felt best when I was sitting down, watching the darkened Pali going sailing by overhead as we ducked in the townside tunnel.

So it was about 30 miles of HHH, some good training pain, and one set of shoes eliminated from the Circle Island mix.

Peacocks for lack of other birds

I ended up going out to Peacocks as my east side plans did not eventuate. It was one of those laid back days I will likely always remember as representing Peacocks, while it actually was not particularly strenuous--which is absolutely what Peacocks is not about. Iconic moments which really are not--it defines culture.

I got there late, took a long time getting to the top, headed out Gordon's backwards, ran into Jeff and Nick--who told me Don was a mile back. I sauntered along taking some pictures, found a high hill and waited. I waited, and meditated, and listened to the wind, and felt the sun on my back and just zoned. It was nice. I heard voices and waited and off in the distance toward the balls I saw two people, and it didn't seem like Don, but I waited and slowly the people came across the ridge, and down along the edges as I relaxed-- it was Heather and Willy. I just sat and listened and meditated, and listened to the songs of the wind, the birds, and the voices of people. Heather and Willy came up the slope and walked below me and disappeared off up the trail. I sat, and felt the cool rains and the heat of the sun, and finally decided to get up and go farther down the trial. Going the wrong way is always revealing. It was another trail with different vistas sight lines. Finally I heard voices and hopped up on a rise just above the trail and crossed my legs again and meditated. You could almost reach up and grab me from the trail. Slowly Don and Julie came up the trail. talking and moving along. I was watching and looked right into Julie's eyes. But they came up on me and moved right on by. I jumped down and followed them for fifty yards, before my shuffling caused Don to turn. Julie looked back at me and her eyes got really wide. "Ooh, you were sitting up there weren't you?" "Yes," I said. "You were sitting up there in lotus position meditating weren't you? "Yes," I said. "I saw you, I told myself I saw you. I said to myself I see this guy sitting up there next to me on the hillside meditating in lotus, but, but, my mind just made an executive decision to ignore you. It was so strange. "Well, that was likely a pretty intelligent decision. If I were walking along this cliff and I saw something like that I think I'd want to ignore it too," I replied. "Could you call that a hallucination? asked Don. "No," I said, "I was there and both Julie and I knew that. It wasn't what she did see that wasn't, it was what she chose not to see that was." Kind of a negative Hallucination.

I left Don and Julie at the stash, and pushed half heartedly down the crossover. I figured I'd run into Huffer and Nick in time. So I did the ridges, the Endless Valley, and had done the first, the second of the smaller valleys when I finally ran into them onthe way back. So we started back together. We covered the ground much faster, and before I knew it we were at the back of Endless Valley and pushing on out along the ups. And they guys started to move ahead of me, and I'd catch up a bit on the steeps, and then finally I rounded a corner and they weren't there, and even after pushing up a steep they were still not up ahead, and I went back to waking, having consumed a third of my water very quickly. But the high cardio was great. When I got to the bottom and the Huffer had waited around for me in true HURT style. I thanked him and he boogied. I had a few V8's and I boogied too.