The Great Aloha Run 2011

On Feb 21,2011 I ran in The Great Aloha Run : an 8.15 mile foot race that starts from  Aloha Tower Marketplace and ends at Aloha Stadium . I woke up at 2:30 am to get to the stadium for the bus ride to downtown Honolulu. I arrived at the stadium at 4:14am and took a 5:00 bus to downtown. As I was lining up at the staging area,the sun was rising.. that alone is what makes this one of my favorite road races. I always line up in the front of the 20,000 entrants so that way I don't have to make my way through a sea of people, I can just run my pace. The national anthem was sung along with Hawai`i Poni `I  and then BOOM the cannon went off and off I went. I didn't train that much this year for the race but gave it my best. I finished 991 overall out of 23,227 finishers, 832 out of 10,899 males  and 84th out of 1038 in my age group of Men 40-44. It wasn't as good as last years finish,but I still maintained a sub 1000 finish.