Archive for May, 2006

This years (2006) Honolulu Triathlon saw perfect weather, fully closed course, and some fast fast times.

Leading the elite men was Mitchell Dean of Australia AUS in 1:46:55, followed by Manuel Huerta in 1:47:00, and Haven Barnes in 1:47:06 both of the US. The top 3 women were all Americans with Jasmine Oeinck leading the way in a time of 1:56:51, with Sarah Groff next at 1:57:18 and Sara Mclarty finishing 3rd in 1:58:08.

The top 3 overall men were:

Benjamin Collins 1:56:37
Tai Blechta 1:58:22
Michael Mc Mahon 1:59:30

Top 3 overall women were:

Rachel Ross 2:11:13
Jennifer Haney 2:14:51
Amy Bennett 2:15:14

Aloha all those who finished and great job

The 2006 Honolulu Triathlon will take place May 13th and May 14th. the Kids Tri will be on the 13th followed by the adult Olympic distance triathlon on May 14th. The swim portion will take place at Ala Moana Beach Park as that beach and the surrounding beaches are clean and back to normal levels of bacteria following the rainy season fiasco causing closure of some of the beaches on the South Shore.

The race route for the Honolulu Triathlon has changed this year and will be as follows.

The swim portion of the race will be the same as last year and will be 1500 meters in the calm Ala Moana Beach. The beach park is guarded from any currents, chop, or waves by the reef that surrounds all of Ala Moana Beach Park. The swim should prove to be one of the easier swims of all the island triathlons.

The Bike portion has changed this year. We won’t speculate on why it’s changed we’ll just say it’s not going out to Hawaii Kai this year and let you make your own decisions as to why that is. The bike portion will instead head out Ala Moana towards Ewa where it will meet up with Nimitz Highway and then Kamehamea Highway. Twist some on Arizona Blvd, then on the stretch of Lagoon Drive (a very nice paved road), back down the Kam. Highway, Nimitz and eventually finishing where they started on Ala Moana. Overall the bike portion is Olympic distance 40K.

The 10K run is basically a loop around Ala Moana Park with a slight detour on Cooke before completing the second loop of the Ala Moana Park. The route is basically flat as can be.

Good luck to all the athletes this year and enjoy the race. For more information on the race course check out the Honolulu Tri Website.

The Honolulu Advertiser had this to say about the incoming summer south swell.

“south swell will arrive late today, and should produce surf near the eight-foot level by tomorrow, resulting in a possible high-surf advisory.”

Now that the South Shore Sewage Spill has begun to be old news we suggest heading out in the water tomorrow for what’s going to be the start of a great summer. There have been some decent days in the past month or so but the breaks have been less crowded than usual due to the Ala Wai Sewage spill.

Now that bacteria levels have gone back to normal at almost all the great surf spots on the South Shore of Oahu we should expect a good group of people to be hitting the waves all day tomorrow. Maybe we’ll see you out there. For more information on great surf spots on Oahu check out our Oahu Surfing Page.

Aloha