One Saturday morning twenty years ago, while having a cup of coffee at Kalapawai Store and watching the canoes being trailered to Kailua Beach Park for the ‘Dad Center’ race on Sunday, Paul Gay says to me, “you should put on a men’s race the day before …
We all expected Tahiti to win The Hawaiian Airlines Molokai Hoe and they did. The surprise was that it wasn’t 8-time defending champion Shell Vaa. EDT Vaa-1 broke Shell’s winning reign taking top honors for the Tahitians in 4:51:43. Shell, who held the lead most of the way across the …
My own training for Molokai enters my brain the moment the race ends and stays in my mind year round. At a certain point, my life literally revolves around crossing the channel, and it is very likely that everyone close to me gets really tired about hearing about it. Every time I have crossed, it …
