{"id":386,"date":"2012-10-16T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=386"},"modified":"2014-09-16T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:04:18","slug":"kona-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Kona–The Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katie at mile 2, heading out Ali’i Drive.<\/p><\/div>\n

The run is the triathlon leg most accessible spectators. \u00a0The Kona route features a couple loops that return through the heart of town, meaning you can see your favorite runner 3 or 4 times. \u00a0Better yet, veteran spectators have bikes at their disposal and are able to trail their runners throughout the course.<\/p>\n

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Katie coming–video from mile 9 along Ali’i Drive. Click on the photo for an mpeg video download.<\/p><\/div>\n

The heart of Kona, along Ali’i Drive and Kuakini Highway, is filled with people cheering and otherwise encouraging the runners. \u00a0After mile 9, the run route climbs to Queen K. highway and spectators dramatically thin until the route enters The Energy Lab around mile 17. \u00a0The Energy Lab loop is a 4 mile black hole for runners, remote, no spectators, a time to dig deep for a reason to keep going. \u00a0The climb back to Queen K. is, by all reports, purgatory.<\/p>\n

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Mile 10 on Hualalai Road. Runners going in other direction are at just beginning their run (mile 1.5).<\/p><\/div>\n

Queen K. ends with a final 1\/2 mi. long 3% grade up to Palani Rd. (mile 25) before a last downhill to the finish line. \u00a0Betsy and I stationed ourselves along the hill, along with a few other spectators, offering encouragement. \u00a0We were greatly appreciated. \u00a0I blew a green vuvuzuela, and whenever I gave my lips a break, a struggling runner–almost always European, it seemed–would stagger by and gasp, “Horn! Horn!” \u00a0Anything to get to the top…..<\/p>\n

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Shanks with Dynamo’s signature cheerhorn–the vuvuzuela. Shanks was everywhere on race day, tracking the Dynamo racers’ progress.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The run is the triathlon leg most accessible spectators. \u00a0The Kona route features a couple loops that return through the heart of town, meaning you can see your favorite runner 3 or 4 times. \u00a0Better yet, veteran spectators have bikes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fam-friend","tag-hawaii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_0379.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QqGi-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}