Living in Hawaii – Moving to Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island

Just a short note to let you know that I created a new page for the Hawai’iloa Ridge Trail hike on southeast Oahu, Hawaii today. This is an amazing hiking trail, 3.5 miles long and 1,700 vertical feet high. It is a somewhat challenging hike with some steep climb sections you need to pull yourself [...]

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There are people in Hawaii doing 100 mile ‘races’. [Video at the bottom of this article] Ultra running is something I’ve never thought of doing – in Hawaii, or anywhere. I think the farthest I’ve ran has been about 12 miles or so. I wasn’t keeping track at the time, it was just a very [...]

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View Larger Map It might have been this park that started my unholy obsession with hiking and climbing. I lived on Maui for over a year while working for a Maui resort management firm in Lahaina. I lived in Kahana, and I got a lot of days off and free time. Every chance I could, [...]

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I’ve been climbing the stairs up a mountain for 4 years now. It started as an innocent pastime which turned into, I guess, an obsession. I’m addicted to it. I’ve almost climbed  a million stairs there in 4 years. What a cool thing it is to say it – right? Most of it has been [...]

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This bears repeating… I just had a girl write me a couple times as she read each post in this series – loving it. This was some of my best writing ever in my life – and I hoped more people would see it and use it. I really looked inside as I ran and [...]

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How many of you can keep your exercise schedule perfectly? When I was in my 20′s and 30′s in Hawaii and Florida doing a lot of running, bicycling, biathlon and triathlon races I always had a set schedule. I stuck to that schedule as best I could – but I would fail sometimes. Nobody can [...]

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