OMAO Everyone at the Omao motorcycle track was dirty on Saturday, after the sixth annual Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run took them through Knudsen Trust private lands, up Kahili Mountain and through an epic obstacle course and mud pit.
OMAO — Everyone at the Omao motorcycle track was dirty on Saturday, after the sixth annual Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run took them through Knudsen Trust private lands, up Kahili Mountain and through an epic obstacle course and mud pit.
More than 1,100 people were registered, about 1,500 milled around the lawn below the obstacle course, waiting to wash up or finishing one of the three courses — the 5 kilometer, the 10 kilometer or the fun run/walk. The fundraiser event supported Keala Foundation, which provides free CrossFit programs for keiki in Poipu, Kekaha and Anahola. Results from the run will be printed when they are released to The Garden Island.
Also on hand were CrossFit athletes Noah Ohlsen, Kara Saunders, James Newbury, Cody Mooney, Patrick Vellner, and four-time CrossFit Games champion Mat Frasier — just to name a few, working with the more than 400 kids signed up for the trail run. They spent the days before the run working out together.
Visitors and Kauai residents alike enjoyed a day in the mud on Saturday, and while the races did name winners, the Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run wasn’t about catching a medal. It was all about the keiki, and it has been since the beginning according to the man who started the Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run, Aaron Hoff.
He says he started the run as a way to fund fitness programs that keep kids away from drugs and alcohol.
More than 600 Kauai keiki are now enrolled in the free CrossFit classes, and more than 400 of those kids participated in Saturday’s run.
