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The Maui Marathon is an annual road marathon on Maui's west coast, held on a Sunday in late April and billed by the organisers as the longest consecutively held running event in Hawaii. A half marathon, 10K and 5K run alongside it. Since 2024 all events have started and finished on Kāʻanapali Parkway in front of the Outrigger Kāʻanapali Beach Resort. The full marathon goes off at 5:00 am, an hour before sunrise, and follows an out-and-back route on Honoapiʻilani Highway (Route 30), turning around near Papalaua Wayside State Park, while the half marathon turns just past Launiupoko Park. Runners pass some aid stations twice, there are no pacing groups, and the full and half courses are certified; the full is a USATF-certified Boston-qualifying course. The course stays open for eight hours and closes at 1:00 pm. The race began on Oahu in the early 1940s as the Hawaiian A.A.U. Marathon and came to Maui just before 1971, when Norman Tamanaha persuaded the newly formed Valley Isle Road Runners to bring it over. It was officially renamed the Maui Marathon by 1974, and for decades it ran point-to-point from Kahului to a finish at Whalers Village in Kāʻanapali. In 2023 it was held at the Maui Tropical Plantation on an east-side out-and-back course and returned to Kāʻanapali in 2024.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
April on Maui's west coast has highs of about 29°C and lows of about 19°C, with little rain: roughly 19 mm over the whole month.
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The Maui Marathon began on Oahu in the early 1940s as the Hawaiian A.A.U. Marathon. Just before 1971, Norman Tamanaha, Hawaii's top runner of the 1930s and 1940s, convinced the newly formed Valley Isle Road Runners to bring it to Maui. Oahu's Johnny Faerber won the first Maui race, and by 1974 it was officially the Maui Marathon.
The original Kahului-to-Kāʻanapali point-to-point route was the one runners preferred. In 1975 the race was a one-year out-and-back from War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, turning in Pāʻia, and from 1975 to 1994 Whalers Village in Kāʻanapali was the finish. In 2023 the event moved to the Maui Tropical Plantation on an east-side out-and-back course, and in 2024 it returned to Kāʻanapali Parkway as out-and-backs.
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