A shirtless Kawaihoola Curnan grunted in pain as he walked away barefoot from the flow of Honolulu Marathon finishers pouring into Kapiolani Park on Sunday.
It was his eighth or ninth time finishing the race, but this year, facing strong tradewinds, he found people to run with in a pack, trading the lead to help lessen the work of running into the wind.
“Nice and cool,” said Curnan, 34, a Kauai resident, of the race after coming in at 3 hours and 30 minutes. “Can’t beat it.”
Like Curnan, many found the race offered a chance to bond with others over the 26.2 miles from downtown Honolulu to Hawaii Kai and back to Waikiki. More than 25,000 crossed the starting line for the marathon and its sister event, the Start to Park 10K run, which starts at the same time and location but ends at Kapiolani Park without continuing on to Hawaii Kai.
Sylvia Ravaglia, who had run the Honolulu Marathon 10 times on her own, ran it for the first time with her 10-year-old daughter Tiffany.
Ravaglia, a horse trainer from Waimea, said she began running marathons as a way to get in shape after giving birth. A year after Tiffany was born, Ravaglia ran her first Honolulu Marathon, then vowed to run the race every year until her daughter could run it with her.
About a year ago Tiffany said she wanted to run it too.
Ravaglia, 41, set up a training regimen for her daughter, and the mother and daughter finished just under their goal of 4 hours and 20 minutes.
“It was fun for the most part,” said Tiffany, who was one of about 200 race registrants between the ages of 7 and 14. “There was drag in the middle.”
Still, she never stopped running, except to fix her shoe.
Ravaglia, a nonathlete before her daughter was born, has about eight 100-mile races and three Ironman triathlons under her belt.
At this year’s Honolulu Marathon, she was able to focus solely on her daughter.
At the beginning of the race, she held Tiffany back because her pace was too fast, but in the second half she found herself pushing hard just to keep up with her daughter’s 7-minute, 40-second pace to the finish.
“I wasn’t running it for me at all,” Ravaglia said.
At the finish line, others who completed the marathon donned the gold medals and finishers’ shirts, which are berry pink with green lettering this year. Dozens used large bags of ice to cool their legs or glutes. A man in a Spider- Man costume said he wanted to run as someone different this year, having completed eight Honolulu Marathons previously.
“Very hot,” he said through the mask.
Two runners shared a photograph after spotting each other running barefoot. Keawe Mo‘o, 42, of Maui, said he runs with less soreness without shoes and finished in 3 hours and 35 minutes after passing 44-year-old Tsuyoshi Yoshino of Tokyo at about mile 15. Yoshino, who says he is known as the Barefoot Prince in Japan, ran with a haku and lei and blamed his slower time on a 60-mile run he completed in October.
Another young runner was 12-year-old Riley Herradura, who finished his third Honolulu Marathon, which he runs annually in memory of his maternal grandfather, who died of cancer in 2016. Herradura finished in just under 5 hours.
A seventh-grader at Ewa Makai Middle School, Herradura said he likes running because it gives him something to focus on rather than stressful things like schoolwork.
He started the run with his father but finished ahead of him. He said he began running the marathon to do something “tough” to honor his grandfather.
“He gives me strength and guidance to finish,” he said.
HAWAII’S TOP 250 FINISHERS
NAME / TIME
1. Ben Williams 2:33:18
2. Humberto Baeza 2:39:43
3. Kazuki Ishii 2:40:37
4. Polina Carlson 2:53:30
5. Evan Weatherby 2:54:22
6. Zachary Lee 2:55:31
7. Sergio Florian 2:58:37
8. Paolo Cavenaghi 2:58:41
9. James Jenkins 2:58:59
10. Timothy Ensign 3:01:09
11. Hayato Date 3:04:19
12. Lyman Perry 3:04:43
13. Kengo Yoshimoto 3:05:25
14. Joseph Barcia 3:05:27
15. Andres Caicedo 3:06:22
16. Anthony Laglia 3:07:45
17. Joshua Munoz 3:08:07
18. Takeshi Yamada 3:08:23
19. Wookie Kim 3:08:41
20. Andrew Medendorp 3:09:02
21. Trevor Johannsen 3:10:34
22. McCampbell Leslie 3:11:03
23. Karl Israelsen 3:11:28
24. Motoki Nakamura 3:11:33
25. Bethany Spector 3:12:19
26. Jeremy Potter 3:12:44
27. Lee Suring 3:13:23
28. Valentine Roberts 3:13:47
29. Cullen Renfro 3:13:48
30. Justin Young 3:14:00
31. Akiko Patterson 3:15:23
32. Scott Parsons 3:15:33
33. Drew Sutherland 3:16:25
34. Sean McGivney 3:17:32
35. David Perez Barbos 3:18:15
36. Ben Halpern 3:18:18
37. Andrew Taylor 3:18:46
38. Dan Rezentes 3:18:58
39. Akihiko Futaki 3:19:11
40. Dean Dioguardi 3:19:36
41. Mieko Ochsner 3:19:37
42. Ilya Fayerman 3:19:54
43. Kevin Davies 3:19:57
44. Tucker Pearce 3:20:00
45. Chris Ayres 3:20:25
46. Jason Black 3:21:36
47. Stefan Cranston 3:21:42
48. Andrew Burness 3:21:46
49. Jay Catbagan 3:22:23
50. Ed Price 3:22:54
51. Kenneth Chaplin 3:23:08
52. Alex Loomis 3:23:15
53. Duane Tamashiro 3:23:29
54. David Miller 3:23:42
55. Justin Seim 3:24:01
56. Satomi Fujii 3:24:23
57. Gabriel Tom 3:24:36
58. Delvin Monden 3:24:53
59. Jeff Haring 3:24:59
60. Aaron Nonaka 3:25:28
61. Timothy Busby 3:25:30
62. Nathan Bodey 3:25:51
63. Breann Guzman 3:26:04
64. Rich Moore 3:26:09
65. Keisuke Suzuki 3:26:23
66. Piper McDonald 3:26:27
67. Samuel Adams 3:26:28
68. Ryan Pagador 3:26:28
69. Takeshi Uemura 3:26:28
70. Isabella King 3:26:34
71. Oba Yukiya 3:26:41
72. Shin Nishibori 3:26:42
73. Paul Lyons 3:26:50
74. Bradley Kukral 3:26:51
75. Ayumu Kasai 3:26:58
76. Gavin Fujitani 3:27:08
77. Ken Edamura 3:27:38
78. Adam Murray 3:27:51
79. Travis Lau 3:28:07
80. Dedy Setiadi 3:28:19
81. Griffin Bolan 3:28:33
82. Kane Kukowski 3:28:41
83. Yoshinari Hamamoto 3:29:06
84. Mark Ravaglia 3:29:18
85. Edward Drielak 3:29:30
86. Troy Oshimo 3:29:45
87. Reimon Wada 3:30:06
88. Patrick Dolan 3:30:06
89. Greg Kodama 3:30:13
90. Jonathan Dove 3:30:23
91. Kawaihoola Curnan 3:30:30
92. Brent Wong 3:30:41
93. Lori Nishida 3:31:15
94. Jon Jokiel 3:31:22
95. Brent Isono 3:31:36
96. Christopher Salas 3:31:44
97. Grant Akamine 3:31:54
98. Brandon Devie 3:32:06
99. Conor Goepel 3:32:11
100. Kelsey O’Connor 3:32:32
101. Douglas Baker 3:32:34
102. John Lewis 3:32:39
103. Daniel Suzuki 3:33:15
104. Chris Domaloan 3:33:27
105. Christian Miki 3:33:33
106. Mitchell Nolan 3:33:46
107. M. Mark Sappington 3:33:50
108. Jen Engeberg 3:34:09
109. Fred Chen 3:34:11
110. Masaomi Uchida 3:34:47
111. Yuko Matai 3:34:55
112. Anna Duggan 3:34:57
113. Mark Sakaki 3:35:02
114. Gillian Wood 3:35:15
115. Keawe M. 3:35:17
116. Rommel Tejeto 3:35:17
117. Roland Laliberte 3:35:47
118. Andrew Beck 3:36:03
119. Stephen Resch 3:36:15
120. Adam Irons 3:36:26
121. Brent Wakuzawa 3:36:28
122. Susie Stephen 3:36:37
123. Darren Pucong 3:36:52
124. Kentaro Aoki 3:37:08
125. Daniel Gardner 3:37:36
126. Patrick Gey 3:37:41
127. Jay Dela Cruz 3:37:49
128. Nobuyuki Tsuchiya 3:37:56
129. Alejn. Serrato Guillen 3:38:00
130. Craig Inouye 3:38:22
131. Eric Brueckner 3:38:39
132. Derek Dickard 3:38:48
133. Christine Davis 3:39:21
134. Jerry Bartolome 3:39:27
135. Jesus Alejandre 3:39:32
136. Noe McMahon 3:39:33
137. Ryosuke Asai 3:40:13
138. Fernando Angueira 3:40:15
139. Hiroko Iijima 3:40:19
140. Reynaldo Ventura 3:40:37
141. Grace Andrews 3:40:38
142. Jesse Wu 3:40:41
143. Satomi Fujimura 3:40:42
144. Cory Tengan 3:40:45
145. Kathryn Taylor 3:40:54
146. Atsushi Onishi 3:40:55
147. Kyle Vares 3:41:01
148. Flavio Alves 3:41:03
149. Frans Juola 3:41:15
150. Sally Marrack 3:41:18
151. Ryan Villar 3:41:20
152. Jessica Kottkamp 3:41:20
153. Rebecca Yasutake 3:41:28
154. Emily Kiaha 3:41:47
155. Aaron Lee 3:41:47
156. Tsuyoshi Yoshino 3:42:11
157. Steven Rueschenberg 3:42:21
158. Dylan Marshall 3:42:26
159. Joshua Baker 3:42:52
160. Miechol Canteros 3:43:07
161. Brad Hawthorne 3:43:39
162. Paul Gregg 3:43:43
163. Riccardo Travaglini 3:43:45
164. Linda Jaffe 3:43:48
165. Kenneth Edge 3:43:51
166. Solange Saxby 3:44:02
167. Jo Anna Syverson 3:44:13
168. Erika Ruppelius 3:44:16
169. Andrew Fisher 3:44:25
170. Bradley Thomas 3:44:27
171. Everett Tom 3:44:27
172. Raymond Davidson 3:44:32
173. Crystal De Alba 3:44:38
174. Burt Senas 3:44:41
175. John McGregor 3:44:49
176. Chandler Brown 3:44:50
177. Kalani Yamazaki 3:44:57
178. Richard Boge 3:45:13
179. Christina Torres 3:45:27
180. Preston Vierra 3:45:34
181. Stephen Leverkuhn 3:45:35
182. Kiyomi Shimizu 3:45:48
183. Kirsten Walsh 3:46:01
184. Yuri Higashi 3:46:01
185. Jordan Bongolan 3:46:04
186. Yehuda Weinbaum 3:46:13
187. Anthony Pacini 3:46:33
188. Marissa Kunsch 3:46:46
189. Rodriquez Spurgeon 3:46:54
190. Erik Delgado 3:47:27
191. Daniel Beckett 3:47:39
192. Yoko Yamazawa 3:47:48
193. Hiromi Yamada 3:47:52
194. Thomas Moen 3:47:53
195. Ryo Sato 3:47:55
196. Dave Schiffner 3:47:56
197. Harrison Oshiro 3:48:14
198. Erin Sakai 3:48:18
199. Ellie Cole 3:48:35
200. Lucia Kerr 3:48:37
201. Alexander Cunningham 3:48:52
202. Atsuko Sekido 3:48:59
203 Gabriel Ganibe 3:49:07
204. Martin Raimann 3:49:10
205. Matthew Puckett 3:49:17
206. Samantha Urabe 3:49:27
207. Rodney Hamlin 3:49:47
208. Takashi Endo 3:50:02
209. Mitsuo Kinoshita 3:50:10
210. Danilo Padilla 3:50:14
211. Jae Han 3:50:36
212 Laurentiu Grigore 3:50:41
213. Charles Holtzapfel 3:50:44
214. Toyoshi Nakajima 3:50:47
215. Maria Morales 3:50:48
216. Tetsuya Tabuchi 3:50:50
217. Daniel Westergaard 3:50:56
218. Benjamin Garriga 3:51:17
219 Cole Alavezos 3:51:18
220. Motomasa Mitsui 3:51:26
221. Mark Shorter 3:51:30
222. Naruhiko Yamada 3:51:32
223. Taylor Chock 3:51:37
224. Shuko Yamane 3:51:40
225. Manuel Ruelas 3:51:41
226. Calvin Shiroma 3:51:49
227. Roy Glasgow 3:51:53
228. Charles Vierra 3:51:55
229. Todd Lewis 3:52:02
230. Yumiko Honda 3:52:03
231. Jamie Guevara 3:52:03
232. Harald Ebeling 3:52:03
233. Naoyuki Honda 3:52:04
234. Thomas Schwietz 3:52:05
235. John German 3:52:11
236. Karla Wayman 3:52:19
237. Sabrina Hsu 3:52:22
238. Justin Davis 3:52:24
239. Andrew Chong 3:52:28
240. Rod Huddleston 3:52:28
241. Matthew Martin 3:52:30
242. Kanealii Ng Osorio 3:52:34
243. Lane Shimonishi 3:52:51
244. Andrea Fukuhara 3:53:11
245. Kent Reisdorff 3:53:22
246. Nathaniel Angel 3:53:26
247. Gaston Ly 3:53:33
248. Jhordan Figueroa 3:53:34
249. O. Kekoa Tugaoen 3:53:39
250. Moises Ayala 3:53:42
