Night Run

Well, I managed to do what I will call the Sea to Summit of Kīlauea. The real summit is next to the Jaggar Museum with that whole area closed since last year. So I went to 3 potential spots that could count as the new summit for this Sea to Summit challenge before stopping my watch. But honestly, the most natural finish could be at the sulphuric vent area looking over the Kīlauea Summit Caldera and Halema’uma’u. You're basically looking over at the closed-off area and the real summit 1.6 miles away. Ultimately you're 80 feet under the actual summit. As a climber that’s hard for me to swallow but you literally will be arrested for trying to get to it (since it could fall into the caldera at any moment - haa). What made the most logical sense to me was since the “True” summit is 1.6 miles away from the overlook mentioned above I just ran to a high contour point that would still be Kilauea and was 4040+ feet. I then stopped my watch.

The ocean start was awesome but wow was it hard navigating the almost 3 miles round trip of lava flows by headlamp at 4am. A short bit of trail and then just dead reckoning haaa. And trying to "Run" random flows by headlamp is not for the faint of heart. Evidently, I worry a little too much about my ankles to really go for it.

Overall this Strava file shows 26 more minutes and 1.5 extra miles. I pressed start at the car on the way out to the ocean and I went to a couple extra possible summit points to just cover my bases after going to the Summit Caldera. The exact time can be found at: http://tpks.ws/7OF37TK5MRNLN22BST4ZPEGBKU . This is my TrainingPeaks account and I bracket off the actual Sea to Summit part. The actual Distance was 22 miles and the time was 4:55:43


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