Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 99

7 The Sunday Star-Bulletin 4 Advertiser Honolulu. December 4, 1977 1-7 ill' arathon 1977 5TH ANNUAL HONOLULU MARATHON 1 977 in If Macdonald 'fit9 for this one 51 m. (START) 1 1 ALOHA TOWER 3 a 90miles) 7 (2 9 m1l)- 5 mbi) (FINISH) KAPIOLANI PARK WAIKIKI BANDSTAND (26 rnihf 385 yardi) A HaneMu AfiKtrt. graphic mop "7 I i If Course of the Honolulu Marathon if- jf 26.2 miles through Honolulu the hard way If Advtrttser pnom Hawaii's Duncan Macdonald, two-time Honolulu Marathon winner and the defending champion, goes after his third championship next Sunday. By MARK OSMUN Advertier Sport Writer The world-class runners those incredibly conditioned athletes who can run every mile of the 26.2-mile marathon faster than most of us can do one mile are in town for next Sunday's fifth Honolulu Marathon.

Some are staying at hotels; some at hosts' homes; one at his father's place. Duncan Macdonald, 28, the defending champion of the Honolulu Marathon and former American record-holder in the 5,000 meters, is back from his pursuit of medicine in California to take on an impressive field of marathoners. Macdonald, a graduate of Kailua High School, won the Honolulu Marathon both in 1973 and 1976. Last year he won with a 2:20:37 time his best and is probably the favorite to win again this year. Not only is Macdonald used to the course and the heat, he is, in his own words, "fit." Early this fall he returned to the islands for the National AAU 25-kilometer race where he broke Frank Snorter's record for the distance.

Ron Wayne finished second to Macdonald both in last year's marathon and in the 25-kilometer race. But the former National AAU marathon champion is only one of many threats to MacDonald's reign. Consider Jeff Wells. Wells won the Nike Marathon in Oregon this fall, also winning a free trip to this marathon. Wells, a seminary student from Dallas, won the race in 2 hours, 13 minutes, 15 seconds over four minutes faster than the course record here.

Or Kenny Moore. Moore, 31, is a two-time Olympian who finished fourth in both the Mexico City and Munich marathons. His time in the 1970 Fukuoka Marathon of 2:11 makes him the fifth-fastest American of all-time. Or Ed Mendoza, 2:14:13. Or Bob Hensley, 2:16:54.

Or Dave Harper, 2:17:05. Or former Punahou teacher Dan Moynihan, 2:19:03. Now consider the women! Kim Merritt, who holds the fastest American marathon time for women 2:37:57, will head a record field of 619 women the most women ever assembled for a marathon race. Merrit will be accompanied by Nina Kusick, who holds the women's record for 50 miles and who was the third woman in history to run the marathon under three hours. Her best time is 2:50:30.

Gayle Barron, a dazzling aerobics dancing teacher from Georgia, is even faster. She ran a 2:47 marathon in the Nike run and placed third in the New York Marathon women's division in October. There is also Sue Peterson, third in the Nike run who did a Debbie Quatier, the former women's record-holder in the Dr. Joan Ullyot, the author of Women's Running, 2:51 and Elizabeth Richards, an Australian who surprised everyone last year by coming from nowhere to finish second in last year's Honolulu run behind Merritt. Local women are led by Cindy Dalrymple the ninth fastest American woman marathoner who placed second in this year's National AAU Women's Marathon Championships with a 2:49:11.

June Chun, who may be hampered by an injury this year, set the world mark for 17-year-old women with a 2:56 in last year's Honolulu Marathon. Frank Shorter and Jack Foster will not be in the race. Nor will New York women's winner Miki Gorman. Bill Rodgers, the fastest American marathoner, and Jack Fultz, former Boston Marathon winner, will be here as spectators. They are returning from Japan's Fukuoka Marathon which was held a couple weeks ago.

Kai. The runners will turn left again on Wailua Street; bear left on Hawaii-Kai Drive and come back to Kalanianaole Highway. They will have about ten more miles to go. The distant buildings. Diamond Head will seem no closer no matter how long one runs.

The course coming back is about the same as going out except for one thing. At about the 23.7-mile mark the runners will hit Diamond Head again but it will not be the same. The runners will be exhausted and instead of the short, abrupt rise they did going East, they will have a long, gradual grade to deal with. The grade is almost a mile long. The final bit of Hell.

Some runners who have done both the Boston and Honolulu Marathons say that Diamond Head on the way back is every bit as tough as Boston's famous Heartbreak Hill. If a runner gets past that, there is only one more mile left. He will trot down the other side of Diamond Head and turn left down Kalakaua at the beginning of Kapiolani Park. The mauka side of the road will be completely closed and lined on both sides with the biggest single mass of spectators of the run (who usually maintain a constant pitch of cheers and hysteria for about six hours.) The runner will pass the cool Dillingham Fountain, the public tennis courts, and will finally be able to see in the distance the huge digits of the Zetachron clock keeping track of his effort. If he survives, the only guide he'll need then will be one that shows the location of the best-stocked beer coolers.

(THl CYCLING CEN nr uauai in ii By MARK OSMUN Advrrtttrr Sporli ritrr When out-of-state runners register for the fifth Honolulu Marathon, they will be presented a slide show to acquaint them with the course. Before the race, they will all probably take a drive around the course to see it firsthand. Local runners, it's assumed, know the course and have run, at least, parts of it. But for every runner in the Honolulu Marathon there are a least 10 spectators many of whom know only that the course goes by their house or hotel. So here's what the course is like from a runner's point of view.

The start is in downtown Honolulu, across from Aloha Tower, about three miles west of Waikiki. The pack will take off at dawn, heading east on Ala Moana Boulevard. They will zip past Sea-Flite, the Falls of Clyde and Ala Moana Park in a tight bunch. The road will be absolutely flat the first rise being the little bridge across the Ala Wai Canal near the Ilikai Hotel. The pack will thunder past the Ilikai and go into that S-turn that leads into Kalakaua Avenue.

From there they will go right through Hotel Canyon the heart of Waikiki before emerging near the zoo. Just between the zoo and Kapiolani Park the runners will turn left on Monsarrat and there at four miles encounter the first, aid-station. The pack except for the world-class runners will still be tightly bunched and the first station may be somewhat chaotic. The runners will go down Monsarrat, under some shade trees, until they come to the first stoplight. There they will turn right onto Pakj Avenue which borders the park on one side.

Paki will yield its shade to Diamond Head Road and the first major hill. The grade going up Diamond Head East-bound is short and steep. The sun will rise out of the ocean to the right, beginning its work on the runners as they skirt the cliff side road. At the crest of the hill is the second aid-station. What follows is a long, gradual grade that flows into the plush Kahala residential area.

Here residents watch the race from their well-appointed lawn brunches. The road eventually levels out. The third aid-station is at the end of Kahala Avenue just before the course turns left onto Keala-olu Drive. Kealaolu is a narrow street bordered on one side by houses and the other by hibiscus trees and the Waialae Golf Course. Though the road is only about one mile long there is another aid station at the end of it.

After the station, the pack (fairly well spread out by now nine miles) turns onto the long, long, long stretch of Kalanianaole Highway. The highway accounts for nearly 10 miles of the race out and back. Even in a car, Kalanianaole Highway is boring. Every turn, every valley looks the same except to the most keen observer. Heat or headwinds will start to take a toll on the runners here.

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Friday, for example, the Honolulu Marathon Association will hold a "Carbohydrate Loading Party" at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel. Mark Osmun (with lots of syrup), pastries, bread, spaghetti, spaghetti-sandwiches, mashed potatoes sprinkled with rice, ice cream, candy in short, everything you always felt guilty about eating! A three-day binge! It's an fuel to burn during the 26.2-mile trip. Ironically, the first three days of the diet exclude carbohydrates. In fact, the first three days are designed to deplete the body of them. One is advised to eat only proteins and continue long-distance training runs.

By the third day the runner will notice himself dragging through the run design that he is, indeed, losing his store of carbohydrates. The thinking is that once the carbohydrates are depleted, they will restore themselves with a vengence at the first opportunity resulting in more acquired carbos than simple gluttony could produce. Now, if the first three days sound dreary, consider the last three days. One is advised to take short, easy runs if any and eat nothing but carbohydrates. That is pancakes Famine then feast.

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