Honu Half Ironman

Thursday night Marianne, Kristy, Jesse and myself hopped over to the big island to compete in the Honu half Ironman. We were greeted with an amazing sunset on the drive to the Mauna Lani resort, which was the host of the race. The island of Hawaii sits on the Southeast tip of the Hawaiian island chain. It is the newest and largest of the islands with land still being added by it's active volcano's. Many of the resorts on the Kona and Kohala coast areas are built on lava flows from as early as the 1800's. It is so beautiful there compared to Oahu. The developers haven't overrun the place quite yet and the population density is low.

This was the one big race I had banked on this year to qualify for the IM world championships in October. So as not to draw it out too much I'll just say there was no joy in that respect.