12/17 Hawaii

I went to Hawaii from 12th to 17th in Dec.

you know what? I went there for Honolulu marathon!!

yes, I ran 42.195km with my father.




Every runners gathered at 3:30 in the midnight because starting time was 5:00 in the morning!!!!

So early...omg

I was so nurvers because it was my first time to take part in that marathon.

Even though marathon!!! I had never ran such a long distance before!!!!

and you know what??

I did not practice for this race......haha..ha


Anyways!

We started with big fire works!!

Wonderful!!




The weather was not good.

It was raining for about 3 hours at the beginning of the race.


I and my dad were running wearing rain coats at first.

It was so hard to find the way we can run because of the crowd!!!

20,302 people participated in this marathon this year.

I heared more than half of the participants were from Japan.



On the way, an army of volunteers waited with cups and sponges and medical supplies.

local people were serving out some kind of food such as dried bananas and cookies.

Companies of sponsor were handing out drinks such as water and sports drinks.

All along the race course, supporters with bullhorns, signs, whistles and clackers spurred on the runners.

Even when the rain pelted down they did so from under slickers and umbreklas.

Every people were cheering so hard for us and the runners!!

They cheered me up a lot!!!




Finally, we finished!!

Look!!

This picture tells you how hard to run with wetted shoes.
Oops!!

Just in case,

it is not my foot, it's my dad's foot.



The first finisher of women in this radce was Kyoko Shimahara of Tokyo, Japan.

Her time was 2:32:36!!! Amazing eh??

As for me and my dad, because of my dad's injury of right leg, we could not continue to run after 25km.

We finished like 6:10:00.

I could say that I had never had such an achievement before.