{"id":495,"date":"2007-12-10T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/soggy-socks\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T03:10:00","slug":"soggy-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/10\/soggy-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Soggy Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marathon<\/a>The weather looked pretty nice when\u00c2\u00a0I rolled out of my driveway at 03:00.\u00c2\u00a0 Coming over the Like Like, the weather was still good.\u00c2\u00a0 I had high hopes for the first dry marathon in years, but as soon as I hit Manoa, the freeway turned wet, and I knew it was not to be.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

All along the way from Kalihi, there was this person in a blue Mazda Protege 5 driving all\u00c2\u00a0erratically – speeding up, slowing down, cutting in and out of traffic, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Kauai plates and a “choose life” magnetic blue\/black ribbon summed up the user demographic nicely.\u00c2\u00a0 Who was this this clown?\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up following the person all the way into the KCC parking lot!\u00c2\u00a0 Who was this clown?\u00c2\u00a0 One of the other wheelchair escort volunteers, that’s who!<\/p>\n

I parked next to Mitch and got everything prepped and put together.\u00c2\u00a0 His\u00c2\u00a0relatives from the\u00c2\u00a0mainland were back again for another year of escorting.\u00c2\u00a0 Root was nowhere to be found.\u00c2\u00a0 I had called him as I rolled\u00c2\u00a0from home.\u00c2\u00a0 Hmm…\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Just about 04:00, the rain hit.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It was a really heavy downpour – like I couldn’t read the license plates\u00c2\u00a0on the opposite row of cars in the parking lot heavy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It let up in time for the 04:30 roll-out, but the roadway was covered with deep puddles and flowing rivers of nasty leprosy water.\u00c2\u00a0 I had put on my front fender as mojo<\/em> against the rain, but it apparently didn’t work.<\/p>\n

We got to the start and followed the last chair out as part of Mitch’s tail group<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Root showed up in time for the start.\u00c2\u00a0 The racers were having a bit of a problem with grip on the hand hoops from the wetness.\u00c2\u00a0 We were told that there were an estimated 25 chairs at the pre-race meeting, but it looked like not much\u00c2\u00a0more\u00c2\u00a0than a dozen.\u00c2\u00a0 The last chairs were swallowed up by the lead runners and the press truck before Iolani Palace, so we sprinted ahead to the next group around AMSC.\u00c2\u00a0 A chair had gone off the course at Piikoi and flatted.\u00c2\u00a0 The next chairs held their lead over the runners until the Zoo, where one was overtaken at Paki, and the other going up Diamond Head.\u00c2\u00a0 I hung back just in case they passed the runners going down Diamond Head or\u00c2\u00a0that avenue below KCC, but that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

Root and I passed around a dozen or more riders from\u00c2\u00a0the middle group<\/em> cruising down Kilauea Ave.\u00c2\u00a0 Considering we were there to escort the wheelchair competitors and not be out on a leisurely Sunday fun ride, I sprinted ahead to catch Mitch, who I assumed would be with the next chair.\u00c2\u00a0 I lost Root at this point for a little while.\u00c2\u00a0 I passed around another half-dozen cruising middle group<\/em> escorts until I caught up to\u00c2\u00a0Mitch just before\u00c2\u00a0Aina Haina.\u00c2\u00a0 We rode on for a while, but there were no chairs ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 I pulled over at the\u00c2\u00a0Kiawe-thorn park for a restroom break, and waited for unsupported returning chairs to jump in with.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The first five chairs went by with the full complement of escorts.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the straggleing middle group<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0riders showed up and eventually some of them jumped in with lone outbound chairs\u00c2\u00a0in that void between the\u00c2\u00a0lead runners and the pack.<\/p>\n

Root had gone out to\u00c2\u00a0Hi Kai with Mitch, but returned, seeing no unsupported chairs.\u00c2\u00a0 We both\u00c2\u00a0ended up riding back in when we saw the\u00c2\u00a0press truck coming back ahead of the lead runners.\u00c2\u00a0 The course was now heavy with throngs of people, so there was no way to cross\u00c2\u00a0the course and shortcut back to KCC.\u00c2\u00a0 We ended up riding all the way back to Kapiolani\u00c2\u00a0Park and going up Monster-rat to the parking lot.<\/p>\n

After group pictures it was pancake time at Kahala Zippy’s.<\/p>\n

D = 41.77 km (25.95-miles), Vavr = 19.3 kph (12.0 mph), Vmax = 46.2 kph (28.7 mph), T = 2-hours, 08-minutes\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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