Posted on: Saturday, December 13, 2003

EDITORIAL
Make way for the Honolulu Marathon

Attention, Honolulu denizens. If you're not running the marathon or cheering someone on tomorrow, why not sleep in, read the Sunday papers and relax.

Because as many of you know, this very welcome and lucrative annual race that shows off the best of O'ahu can create traffic gridlock for a least a few hours.

Organizers anticipate as many as 25,000 runners this year.

As usual, the course is 26.2 miles and runs from Ala Moana Beach Park, downtown and back through Waikiki, past Diamond Head and Kahala, along Kalaniana'ole Highway to Hawai'i Kai, back through Kahala, up Diamond Head Road and to the finish line at Kapi'olani Park.

So let's keep out of the way of runners who've been training hard for this spectacular race.