Results from Veterans Day Run – top 75

Hunter	Stephen	17:33
Langtry	Andrew	17:58
De Rego	Gabriel	20:20
Sato	Dyson	20:22
Grady	Pam	20:38
Rosario	Heather	21:28
Sakai	Dean	21:32
Ibarra	Ray	21:38
Hylas	John	21:47
Rosario	Nathaniel	21:59
Phumage	Victoria	22:00
Hose	Uriah	22:02
Hunter	Lory	22:04
Okumura	Kevin	23:11
LaBrie	Colbie	23:26
Busek	Adam	23:32
Yamada	Roy	23:35
Freitas	Kelly	23:37
Blinn	DJ	24:07:00
Kanashiro	Harris	24:43:00
Belcher	Robert	24:45:00
Funai	Kaitlyn	25:35:00
Bean	Nina	25:35:00
Swanson	Jesse	25:40:00
Truesdell	Joel	25:55:00
Ayceo	Ryan	26:23:00
Spina	Catherine	26:24:00
Thero	Firmin	26:36:00
Nagai	Dennis	26:51:00
Wedemann	Veroonica	27:05:00
Wedemann	Joe	27:06:00
Nolta	Anthony	27:16:00
O’Connell	Tim	27:19:00
Nakamura	Dana	27:32:00
Ayceo	Raymond	27:49:00
Balderas	Jennifer	29:08:00
Yamada	Gerald	29:30.0
Sur	Peter	29:31:00
Tamada	Wendy	29:32:00
Vicente	Adrel	29:33:00
Pavao	Steve	29:34:00
Miamgtry	Andrew	29:34:00
Decleene	Therese	29:34:00
York	Alvin	29:52:00
Jack	Kaleo	30:25:00
Tagawa	Lynn	30:31:00
Ahuna’Leong	Muriel	30:51:00
England	Stacy	31:32:00
Cabarloc	Reyn	31:42:00
Adachi	Dave	31:42:00
Kay’Wong	Lucas	31:53:00
Kay’Wong	Alex	31:54:00
Shigeoka	Dennis	32:12:00
Morita -Zen	Amanda	32:23:00
Morita	Aaron	32:29:00
Tagawa	Miles	32:41:00
Swanson	Suzanne	32:49:00
Rosario	Josaih	32:49:00
Rosario	Naomi	32:50:00
Faulknew	Lisa	32:55:00
Quitoriano	John	34:06:00
Ahu	Kaala	34:24:00
Takei	Lance	36:43:00
Wegner	Herb	37:17:00
Arceo	Ethan	37:19:00
Arceo	Michelle	37:19:00
Rosario	Missy	37:24:00
Wong-Yuen	Chelsea	38:16:00
Ahu	Wendy	39:38:00
Kuramoto	Marie	39:42:00
Inouye	Eric	39:42:00
Jose	Tiana	40:33:00
Domingo	Kalana	40:33:00
Hanson	Paul	40:35:00
Makua	Malcom	41:04:00

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Malcolm Makua making great strides

Malcolm Makua is out running again

    It was great seeing Malcolm Makua running in the 3.1-mile fun/run hosted by the County’s EMS on Memorial Day.

    For a few months Makua was absent from the running scene as he had developed an unexpected medical problem that brought some uncertainty into his life.

   On December 29, while out on an 8.5 mile run Makua encountered a frightful experience.  “I had just passed 5-miles when I just couldn’t run anymore,” he said.  “My mind said to continue but my body refused to go any further.”

   Makua remembers feeling very sick as he walked the rest of the way home.  Once home a 911 call was made and he was on his way to the Hilo Medical Center.

  “They found my heart rate racing over 200 beats per minute,” Makua said.  “The medical staff made a decision to use medication to bring my heart rate back to normal and the next day I was transferred to Tripler Army Medical Center for further testing.”

   Once at Tripler a cardiologist performed a cardiac catheterization.  “The doctor told me the bad news was like an old house where the plumbing over time gets clogged,” Makua said.  “But the good news is that my years of running had made my arteries unusually larger than normal.”

   Makua was to be transferred again, this time to Straub Clinic and Hospital, where an Electro cardiologist performed a heart ablation to the ventricle.   

   Within two months Makua was walking regularly up to 3-miles a day.  “Then the unthinkable happened,” he said.  “I was sitting at home in front of the computer, checking my blood pressure with a home monitor, when it would not register.”

  A quick physical check found Makua’s heart rate elevated and in fibrillation, an immediate trip to Hilo Medical Center was scheduled.   A doctor at the hospital performed electro cardio version to bring the heart into rhythm which worked.

  Makua began working his way up to where he was before encountering his fibrillation problems.  “I had a lot of confidence that the medication that I received in Honolulu, backed up by a defibrillator, would allow me to live a normal life again,” Makua said.

  After a short rest Makua was back on the road walking 3-miles daily.  “I may not run the Big Island Marathon this year,” he thought to himself, “but I plan to recover from my medical condition and do the race one day in the future.”

   Makua knew that he needed to take his recovery slowly and to work his way up to where he would feel comfortable and confident about his situation.

   “I was having high hopes of a good recovery when my world began to crumble in March as I was having another relapse,” he said.

   Now in the hospital for a third time in three months Makua’s heart rate was brought into a normal rhythm through the use of medication.  Besides the usual medications for arrhythmia Makua is also required to take 81 mg. of aspirin daily.

   “Right now I’m fine with a heart rate where it should be and blood pressure like I’m a 20 year old,” Makua said.  “The side effect from the medications is that I get a slight dizziness whenever I stand.”

   Through it all Makua is grateful for one thing and that is that he stayed in shape and was healthy going into it all.

   “Throughout this entire trauma I heard the doctors and nurses say that if it had not been for my good health things could have been worse and recovery slower,” Makua said.

   “I believe in staying in good health and it requires us to do our part by being active in any form of exercise,” Makua said.  “I watched a Tai-Chi master being interviewed and at the end he was asked if he had anything personal to share with the television audience and he said ‘whether the correct form or incorrect form of tai-chi, most important is, do tai-chi.”

   The moral of what Makua is sharing with the Big Dog readers is that it isn’t important what physical exercises you do, what is important is to do something, everyday to improve your health.

   “We should all be doing aerobics, or surfing, or kayaking or walking to improve our health,” Makua said.

   Makua was born in Honolulu and grew up in Hilo, served in the U.S. Army and worked with the U.S. Postal Service before returning to Keaukaha in 1999.

   “I weighed about 200 pounds when we moved back to the Big Island and I began to make a serious effort to lose weight and improve my health,” he said.

   Running was part of Makua’s daily life style in the Army, but when he got out he did very little running or exercise until he looked at himself in the mirror and saw his health going downhill.

  Today Makua is walking 4.5 miles five days a week, running 5K (3.1-miles) once a week and he recently joined an aerobic class two days per week.

   “There is no doubt that staying in good physical health helped me during those 911 calls,” Makua said.  I did not have the severe trauma associated with heart fibrillation and my recovery was surprisingly quick.”

Army Birthday 5K run/walk results from Hilo event

Photo of Warrior 3-miler. Results posted is of Army Birthday 5K

AMARAL, DUSTIN	136	28.57.63
AMES, CANDACE	123	1.00.20.34
ANDRADE-SPENCER, PATTI	119	1.02.55.97
ARMSTRONG, JAMES	10	43.05.98
AYSON, GINO	21	22.48.94
BANKS, DONNA	120	1.02.55.02
BIELMANN, JESSE	19	21.17.23
BREAR, JOHN	23	22.40.41
BROOKS, CHARLES	137	50.54.01
BROOMELL, GABRIEL	17	28.23.60
CHOCK-DAGUIO, KATELYNN	110	54.00.33
CLARIN, LIEZEL	117	58.04.33
CONARTON, CHE	113	58.02.88
CONNELLY, JOHN	140	1.02.34.35
COOKE, MILLIE	29	28.06.23
CUNNINGHAM, DARIA	106	33.51.85
DAVIS, JAZZIRAE	32	35.13.24
DESILVA, MABEL	121	59.06.90
DEVILLE, DARLA	111	52.44.36
ERICKSON, JOHN	15	28.27.03
FAPIANO, LUSIAROSE	116	1.00.07.86
FAPIANO-LORENZO, ANA-MALIA	115	1.00.06.99
FREITAS, KELLY	9	24.38.59
FUATA, BENEDICT	2	41.24.46
FUNAI, ERIC	128	45.03.78
FUNAI, JESSICA	101	50.46.09
GAMUROT-BROWN, ERBIN	53	23.41.83
GRANT, KAWIKA	138	51.24.55
GUENTHOER, JAMES	126	27.56.17
HIRATA, ETHAN	25	49.05.07
HOLLEY, SIMON	141	55.29.45
HOLLEY, TERI	112	55.21.73
HUNTER, LORY	34	22.57.23
HUNTER, STEPHEN	51	24.10.15
IMAI, JAMIE	135	1 07 14 11
IMAI, STACIE	108	1.07.15.78
KATO, EMMA	118	1.00.19.27
KELAU-SPEGAR, DONNA	26	52.21.67
KURAMOTO, MARIE	107	34.06.76
LOZANO, ZORBA	16	23.45.65
MAKUA, BETTY	109	41.39.33
MAKUA, MALCOLM	14	41.10.07
MARQUEZ, CHEVIS	129	50.33.02
MARQUEZ, KAYLEE	102	1.00.58.85
MIYASHIRO, STEWART	3	21.03.56
MIZUBA, RAY	130	1.00.31.15
MOORE, BILL	132	42.42.61
MYRIANTHIS, CAROL	114	57.46.18
NE, ALBERT	8	31.13.43
OKAMURA, KEVIN	11	24.42.44
OKUYAMA, JUSTIN	13	24.53.29
PALMERSTON, DAWN	35	33.29.09
PALMERSTON, MICHAEL JR	52	33.30.33
PALTIN, SAMUEL	134	57.47.24
PEDERSEN, MEHAN	105	1.01.07.86
PEDERSEN, TORREY	133	1.01.09.73
PIANO, MALIA	31	35.14.09
PUKAHI, LEAH	33	34.33.60
RAFFIPIY, DAYLEN	6	30.26.54
RAFFIPIY, KAAI	7	40.58.12
RAFFIPIY, MARCIE	103	26.19.17
RAFFIPIY, RYANNE	27	1.00.43.84
RAFFIPIY, THOMAS	5	1.00.46.80
ROBERTS, MARCUS	24	49.04.05
RYAN, ALAN	22	19.39.14
SANTIAGO, GREG	131	46.39.97
SHIGEOKA, DENNIS	12	33.32.78
SOARES, NATHEL	20	26.50.07
TAM, KEAOPUA	28	34.28.28
TANIMOTO, VIOLET	30	57.48.54
TELLIO, JARED	139	54.01.83
TROUTMAN, MARY	122	59.04.69
YANO, ALLISON	4	41.17.63

BIRR Post Thanksgiving run/walk Results

BIRR president, Greg Lum Ho, addresses a group of runners prior to start of a fun run/walk

A sparse group attended this mornings (Saturday’s) Big Island Road Runners 5K run/walk at Coconut Island.

According to club president, Greg Lum Ho, the low numbers may have been a result of miscommunication as the BIRR schedule had the event slated for tomorrow morning.

Lum Ho will return to the Coconut Island parking area on Sunday morning, “in case some people show up,” Lum Ho said.

Following is the list and times of the 18 people that crossed the finish line Saturday  that was provided by Lum Ho:

1 Justin Pang 19:08
2 James Yoshimoto 19:44
3 Steve Pavao 20:00
4 Stewart Miyashiro 20:11
5 Shalila de Bourmont 21:59
6 Justin Kunkle 22:03
7 Heidi Frei 23:20
8 Jim Tuscany 23:449 
9 Roy Yamaha 24:23
10 dean Alip 24:29
11 ester Kanehailua 25:57
12 BIG DOG 25:58
13 Dayson Alip 27:01
14 Kelly Freitas 27:11
15 Gilbert Bailado 30:48
16 matt Lum 32:37
17 Malcolm Makua 32:37
18 Susan O’Neill 1:03:29

For questions about upcoming BIRR events contact Lum Ho at: 987-5224 or kahakuokahale@msn.com

ON SUNDAY MORE RUNNERS SHOWED UP:  RESULTS LISTED BELOW:

1 choy bacor 20:24
2 john hylas 20:25
3 steve pavao 21:37
4 cody walker 22:03
5 saya baker 23:04
6 pete hill 23:24
7 arjun clarry 24:42
8 dj blinn 25:24
9 casey chai 25:41
10 daysan matsuda 25:43
11 mahina lui-kwan 26:05 (first female)
12 charles broswick 26:57
13 jacob elarco 27:03
14 ken yoshitomi 27:06
15 max shimamoto 27:08
16 david duvoisin 28:17
17 dylan loi 28:55
18 sheila cadaoas 29:03 (second female)
19 alexandria burman 29:31 (third female)
20 nancy hill 29:32
21 matthew coglan 30:50
22 elijah pung 30:50
23 nani lancaster 30:50
24 malcolm makua 31:13
25 josh hoomanawanui 31:29
26 zachary okumoto 36:49
27 steven robello 37:51
28 michelle macanas 39:35
29 cedrick robert 40:40
30 maicah keawe 40:41
31 kawika kekaualua 43:28
32 david robello 44:52
33 kawehi kanoho 45:02
34 leezah inamine 46:18
35 ashly deguzman-h 46:18
36 jessie mata 49:20
37 carle mata 49:20
38 kaimiloa yoshida 57:03
39 kalena zimmerman 57:03
40 dady dumaguin 57:03
41 dustin delima 57:03
42 micah ahar 57:03
43 iwalani koili 57:03
44 lauren siboryton 57:03
45 kuulei kramer 57:03
46 dalen nakooka 57:59
47 pii miller 58:03
48 carteon soung 58:04
49 kim palea 58:07
50 kenson wagner 1:02:02
51 christian saragosa 1:02:02
52 saesha bohol-perez 1:04:02
53 kawelina gomes 1:04:02
54 jennifer park 1:05:02
55 alana matsuoka 1:05:02