DAY 1 - 7 Mile Makena Beach Resort Out-n-Back

DAY 1 - 7 Mile Makena Beach Resort Out-n-Back

Would have taken more photos from the run, but the cell's battery ran rdy

DAY 2 - The moon has survived the total lunar eclipse (this is the first I've seen the moon in over a week)

Valerie joins me for this run in the rain, but decides to turn back after nearly 2.6 miles

That is not sweat on my watch

The sun has started to break through the clouds, but it is still raining

Kamaole Beach Park I. With so many peeps posting pics of double rainbows in L.A. yesterday, I hoped to see one here this morning

Time to cross Kihei Road and head back to Wailea

Still raining

I run by Da Kitchen Express...where we ate lunch yesterday. Seems appropriate to take a picture of it because I will soon be enjoying Valerie's leftovers from here.

Back to Wailea

DAY 5 - Long steady run day, so I decide to go as far south as I can go in the hopes of doing a 21 miler. Unfortunately, my headphones started malfunctioning after the first mile...and I find running without tunes maddening!

This is my first time stepping upon the sand of Big Beach

Little Beach is on the other side of this rock...I would take a peek, but I have a lot more running to do!

According to my GPS watch, the entrance to the Ahihi Kinau Natural Area Reserve is exactly 7 miles into my run. As I select to review the lap history, the watch powers off. When I attempt to turn it back on, its LCD display flickers then fades. Something is clearly wrong

Do I turn back or press on without my watch? The whole reason I looked forward to this run was to gather GPS data from here!

I almost drove this far south during my visit 2007. On that trip, I parked at a lot on the north edge of this lava flow. I don't know if ths area was closed then, but it certainly is now

Haleakala is still covered by clouds, but the sun is starting to burn through. I try turning on my watch again. It displays a version of the activity menu I have never seen before. No button on the watch works. I cannot even turn it off! This sucks!

La Perouse Memorial marks the end of the road, Makena Road that is

La Perouse Bay. According to Google Maps, I should be around 8.2 miles into my run, but that does not account for my detour at Big Beach. Dang, I feel lost without my GPS watch!

There are still clouds over Haleakala, but it looks like I will have to endure mostly sun for the second half of this run.

So many warning signs, but no sign of dolphins

I walked around this black sand beach when I drove down heere in 2007