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Checking the bike course on Akone Puli Highway up by Lapakahi State Park

Photos by Tek Mapon

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We had a day on the water swimming with Dolphins along the Big Island coast. What more could you ask from life!

Close enough to touch

Gordy underwater

What a crew

Toni and me

Leis for May 1

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Lei Day in Hawaii…no matter where you live you can celebrate it. We celebrate a friend’s 40th birthday.

Kelly turning 40!

A hula show at the Waikoloa Bowl

Bree Wee breezing!

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News about some Hawaii Boston Marathon runners…we do a little 10 mile run of our own thanks to Sean Padgett. Bree Wee breezes past me! The week of the Merrie Monarch Hula festival in Hilo.

The start of a Peaman 10 mile race

A beautiful day to run along Alii Drive

Of course some people caught a few zzzz

Fisherman's Wharf

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A short trip to San Francisco for a followup doctor’s appointment. Weather was beautiful again. A touching story in the waiting room as a patient calmly announces to his family the results of his diagnosis. Very inspiring. Some great food at a couple of wonderful Italian Restaurants. A chance for me to do a run along the Embarcadero and enjoy what I couldn’t on the last trip.

Carmen's Restaurant

Back to Hawaii for Easter at Kelly and Susie’s house in Waikoloa Village. Gotta love the Easter egg hunt. Watch out for the games the adults play though!

Find those eggs

The Easter ham

Lavaman Finish Line

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Chris McCormack wins and pretty much kept up with me on my motorcycle. Well at least up to 30 mph! A new course record by Chris. A very windy day for the slower competitors but you have to be inspired by their determination.

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A few weak earthquakes hit our neighborhood but nothing too bad. Some races highlight the month. Peaman race and Run for the Hops. Sean’s races are at 8:00 am on 2nd Sundays of the month (sort of!)

The start of a Peaman Race

The Run for the Hops

John Simmerman Race Director

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Last weekend we took a whale watching trip with Captain Casey (check out his website at www.adventurexrafting.com)

Lot of whales around but as usual you had to be paying attention to see a good breach. As we headed back after a couple of hours we stumbled upon a mother with her baby riding her nose. Quite a sight! At one point the nurse whale who was nearby headed directly at us but dove away into the blue.

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Ahoy matey

A whale fluke

Whale tail

A whale snout

Sorry everyone for the lag in the blog…the whole cancer surgery in San Francisco thing has certainly taken it’s toll. In any case here goes:

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Ultraman was a blast at Thanksgiving…I get to be a race Marshall so I get to ride in comfort (?) for the three days of the event. My main concern is safety of the athletes and no one was hurt.

The trip to Honolulu in December was very special…Toni and Gordy were great to be with and it was wonderful to see Carmen. Unfortunately since then Carmen has been laid off as a catering manager at the Kohala Resort. We’re hoping she can stay in Hawaii and get her visa renewed by a new employer (she’s German)

The weather definitely turned wintry around Christmas time, windy and rainy. and now cold…check out the latest Podcast #102 for a weather report.

New Year’s Eve was great..Hula, Fireworks and Fire-dancing over at Felix’s house in Waikoloa Village. I’m lucky to know such a diverse group of people and to have them as my friends.

Ahh…San Francisco in January for surgery. If you’d like to know about the procedure just search for “Da Vinci prostate surgery” All is well (well almost all) now, the pathology report showed that nothing had spread and the tumor that they took out might have been a little lower grade. I still have a ways to go to return some of my “function” 6 to 18 months is the standard advice that they give. I never had to use the Depends that I bought so I feel good about that part of my quality of life. It is good to know that I am a cancer survivor…now I just have to have patience as I get back into training and drop all the “worry” weight that I gained. My goal is to be back at a normal weight for me (185) by Honu Triathlon time May 30th.

Mahaloes to all of you who have written and twittered during this time (Kevin-aka Jockotherocks and Jim-aka Kimokali especially for their encouragement and twitters while I was in San Franciso)

Aloha and love to all,

Joe

Hospital in SF

one of the angels in SF

At least the weather was great

My friend Kyle doing a show for us

The Peaman race 10 days after surgery

A wedding to go to this weekend

Finally catching up on the Blog, our apologies for the long delay.

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Mahalo to all the Ironman volunteers and the hard work that they did to make the race a success.

Aid Station waiting for Athletes

The week before the Ironman was hectic as usual but very interesting for me. The usual last minute arrangements for Ice and supplies went pretty smooth but as usual race day was a different story. The highlight of the week was the tour that Jen and I got of the USS Lake Erie…a great honor and priviledge to associate with all the sailors on board the ship.

My Ironman day started at Midnight with the first supplies delivery and ended at 1 am on Sunday. A few glitches…a rolls delivery gone bad, but all the aid stations did their job with enthusiasm and Aloha.

I did forget in the shows to mention that the Navy Seals did a jump before the race start, and that 2 of them actually competed in the race after jumping. One of them did the bike and run in his fatigues and combat boots! WhoooWaa!

Thanks to all the listeners who have emailed, especially those from Japan. We might be opening up a phone line so that you can call in any comments or questions that you have for us.

Mahalo,

Joe