Bike Works Beach and Sports 5K/10K 2011

After my experiences swimming the past two weeks, it was nice to finally get into a running race again. (As I typed that, I realized that the Kona half marathon was only two weeks earlier, but with races usually every weekend, it seemed longer than that.) Anyway, last year was the first time for this event in Waikoloa. Both Jason and I ran the 10K last year and on a hot and windy course decided that this year we'd tackle the 5K instead. As we did our warm-up both of us were glad we made that call.

Both the 5K and 10K ran along the main road through Waikoloa Beach Resort and back, which definitely has more hills than you would think. Jason started out the race by watching another guy pull 30 seconds ahead in the first mile, so he had to work pretty hard to reel him back in. But at the end of the day, Jason came in first in 17:43, followed by Bruce Berkeley in 18:25 and Heimana Donnatin in 19:04. For his efforts, he also won a gift certificate for some Oakleys!

For the ladies, Pascale Fasciano pulled away at the start and the rest of us could never catch up. She finished in 22:08. I was second in 22:19 and Melissa Schad was third in 23:04. So no Oakleys for me, but I did get a gift certificate for some Sanuk sandals. Full results for the 5k are here.

Go Jenny!

Andrea Cobb

Garrett Oka with Stanley Ray and Blair

In the 10K, Todd Edgell from West Virginia took first in 37:59, while Tai Scarborough was second in 39:03. Coming in next was the first female, Rani Tanimoto, in a fantastic time of 39:35, just ahead of Kona Marathon champ Valeria Sesto who finished fourth in 41:28. Full results from the 10K are here.

10K Female Winner Rani Tanimoto

Second place woman Valeria Sesto

Lee-Anne Lowery-Gorman

I hope she didn't run the whole race with kids on her shoulders!

Mahalo again to Nori Becker who took some great photos for us. In addition to the ones in this post, more can be found here. Here are some of the local runners who won some age group awards!

Mike DeCarli

Michael Woodbury

Rob Van Geen

Lisa Bryant

Jon Kunitake

Mahalo to BikeWorks and the volunteers for another great event. Up next is Peaman's Red, White & Blue Biathlon this Sunday at Kailua Pier. It starts at 8:03 a.m. and is a 1/2 mile swim and 3.5 mile run. I'll be on the mainland, so good luck to everyone!