The People’s Race Inc.: Behind the Scenes at the Honolulu by Michael S. K. N. Tsai
By Michael S. K. N. Tsai
The Honolulu Marathon debuted in 1973 because the shared imaginative and prescient of a maverick heart specialist bent on proving the good thing about long-distance operating for cardiac sufferers and an impetuous mayor wanting to end up Honolulu the equivalent of the pinnacle towns within the kingdom. Over a span of forty-plus years, the race matured into one of many biggest marathons on this planet, a $100 million monetary engine for its domestic kingdom, and a release pad for probably the most dominant long-distance runners in smooth historical past. From its modest begin as a group occasion for neighborhood amateurs, the race now frequently draws 30,000 entrants—more than part from Japan—and boasts elite fields led by way of Kenyan and Ethiopian specialist runners, each one hoping to earn a proportion of a $150,000 prize purse.
The People’s Race Inc. captures the personalities, politics, and gear performs at the back of the burgeoning development of the Honolulu Marathon and offers a distinct lens for figuring out the advanced heritage of the game itself. Drawn from revealing interviews with these closest to the development, in addition to exhaustive examine, journalist Michael Tsai offers an insider’s account of ways organizers cast profitable partnerships with overseas traders, helped begin the age of African dominance of the marathon, and weathered the most weird and wonderful demanding situations that you can imagine. The publication additionally exposes the ways that the marathon's expansive progress reflected the explosive, now and then bewildering, improvement of post-statehood Hawai‘i.
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