Maui Marathon

Course & Elevation

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.