KONA MARATHON 2007
Photos by runner Rodney Chang-    2007 Copyright Pygoya

 

 

11 miles, heat is picking up

 

 

solar panels

 

 

 

Koyo USA Corp- converting sea water to bottled fresh water

 

 

12 miles - notice no cover for miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

it's dry and hot out here

 

 

 

 

smell like waste treatment facility

 

 

 

the turn around at 13.1 but nobody's around to cheer you to head back; no computer shoe chip for this small run of only 197 runners

 

 

 

like the rest of Big Island, it's all lava

 

 

 

14 miles after which I surprisingly start to cramp, the soonest of any of the 20 marathons I have run

 

 

 

15 miles

 

 

 

16 miles, still all highway and NO shade

 

 

 

18 miles, still all highway and NO shade

 

 

 

19 miles, still all highway and NO shade

 

 

 

back to civilization

 

 

 

like a little disco!

 

 

 

21 miles

 

 

 

the turn back into seaside Kona resort town

 

keep running