Updated at 11:37 a.m., Thursday, January 25, 2007
Early registration for Honolulu Marathon ends Sunday
Advertiser Staff
Early walkup registration for the Dec. 9 Honolulu Marathon is being accepted through Sunday at Niketown in Waikiki.So far, more than 2,000 have signed up. Last year, a record 3,070 signed up during the early registration period.
Entry fee will be $20 for all Hawaii residents and military persons stationed in the state. The fee includes a commemorative ChampionChip timing chip. The chip laces into the runner's shoe and interfaces with timing mats along the route to produce a precise timing record.
Free gifts will also be distributed while supplies last.
Early registrants can purchase tickets to the Honolulu Marathon's luau/concert at the Waikiki Shell on Dec. 7 for $20. Each registrant will be entitled to purchase up to six companion tickets at the same price. The luau/concert, Hawaii's largest catered event, will include an all-you-can-eat dinner as well as entertainment.
Registration will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
The Honolulu Marathon was Hawaii's largest participatory sporting event in 2006 with 24,575 finishers in the marathon and 4,888 in the event's concurrent 10-kilometer Race Day Walk. It was America's third largest marathon last year and the world's sixth largest.
