Friday, May 17, 2013

A Wet One

I probably should have put this post up earlier this week, since there's not going to be much to it.  Last Sunday morning was the Mother's Day Peaman event - Polar Bear's Pinto Bean and Pinata Biathlon.  But this was one Peaman race where the weather just didn't want to cooperate (that's one of the reasons this post has no pictures).

About 3 minutes after the race started, the skies opened and the downpours began.  Despite huddling under an umbrella tucked up against a truck, the timing machine did NOT enjoy the rain at all.  So 6 minutes into the race, it went beserk!  One of the first rules of timing should always be to keep a backup timer, but things had gone so smoothly in the past that I broke this rule.  Luckily Christine DeCarli had started her phone timer at the start of the race.  Without her, we might not have had results for this race!

As it turned out, we had to keep results the old school way, with a pen, paper and a stopwatch (although not completely old school, it was an iPhone stopwatch). But we managed to get everything worked out, and results are available here.  Congratulations to Bree Wee who won the full distance event and Kanaipono Eckart who won the peawee race.  Also, thanks to everyone who volunteered in the rainy conditions, including Christine DeCarli who gave up part of her Mother's Day morning to help at the last minute!

Up this weekend is the Queen K Tri Club's Half Marathon and 10k Training Runs starting at 7 a.m. on Sunday at Old Airport Park.  The runs will go from Old A to Alii Drive, past Casa D'Emdeko and back.  There will be aid stations every 1.5 miles and Big Island Running Company's aid station will be located at the 10K turnaround.  This event is free and is great training for Ironman 70.3 Hawaii and the Kona Marathon/Half Marathon.  We'll see you out there!

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