Darin heard about this run just after we got to the island, so we decided to put it on our agenda to do.
We had second thoughts when we needed to get up at 5:45am to be in Kona by 7am for a 7:30am start.
We got ourselves up and out the door by 6:15am.
There was a beautiful sunrise on the way in.
Here we are before we started.
We are on are way!
Darin was nice and ran with me. He could have finished much sooner. He was our photographer. :-)
1/2 way!
We can see the finish!!
Their picture of us coming to the finish.
Yeah! We are done!
I'm so glad that we did it. It always feels good after a run. As Lysa TerKeurst says in her book, More than a Good Bible Study Girl, "I never regret getting up and running, but I always regret not doing it." It was a fun thing to do together and before January of this year, it wouldn't have happened. I love that running is a part of our lives now. It feels good.
Chris Lieto set a new course record. I didn't know before today, but he is a professional triathlete who is sponsored by K-Swiss (plus many others). His time was 16:18.5. His son, Kaiden, did the 1 mile race and came in 2nd at 7:49.6. He looked to be about 8yrs. It was so cute, he was all decked out in K-Swiss. Looks like he is following in his Father's footsteps. :-)
It was a free event, but they had lots of prizes and giveaways after. They said that in the spirit of Christmas and giving that the event was free and they wanted to provide lots of gifts provided by generous business in the community. We ended up with a Starbucks coffee mug and a box of Starbucks Mocha VIAs. Love it! We really enjoyed the feeling of community and uplifting each other. It was pretty cool.
So now we have "RUN BIG"
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