XTERRA World Championship

Maui, Hawaii | Sunday, October 28, 2012 | $105, 000 Purse

XTERRA Kapalua 5/10km Trail Run and Keiki K

DATE: Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 9am

Keiki K - 11am

WHERE: Ritz Carlton, Kapalua, Maui

DISTANCE: 5/10km and Keiki K

The off-road adventurous spirit of XTERRA reaches out to the community with XTERRA Kapalua 5/10K as well as XTERRA Keiki K for kids ten and under. The 10K and 5K races are open to one-and-all (the 5km is open for walkers too!) and a benefit for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Maui County. All competitors will experience the famed XTERRA World Championship run course. Awards go to the top three in each age group, and the 10km men’s and women’s winners earn roundtrip airfare between the mainland and Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines, while the 5km winners earn a pair of shoes from XTERRA Footwear. Paul Mitchell stylists will be there cutting hair in exchange for a donation to the Challenged Athlete Foundation.

RATES:

10km - $40 / $45 (after Sept. 26)

5km - $30 / $35 (after Sept. 26)

STUDENT AND MILITARY RATES: 10km - $35 / $40 (after Sept. 26) / 5km - $25 / $30 (after Sept. 26) - with valid ID.

KEIKI K: Free fun run for kids 10 and under. 8-10 year olds will run a kilometer, with 6-7 year olds about half of that, and 5 and under 100 yards. Parents must register their children. All participants get awards and post-race refreshments. Sorry, no t-shirts for children.
REGISTRATION AND PACKET PICKUP: Wed. and Thur. 9am-3pm, Fri. 9am-5pm at XTERRA Village, Ritz Carlton Kapalua.
RACE DAY: Sat. 10/27 New registration 7-8:00am and packet pickup 7-8:30am at the race start.

EVENT PARKING: On Saturday and Sunday, please park in the XTERRA event lot by D.T. Fleming Beach. Take Honoapiilani Highway to Kapalua. Pass the entrance to Kapalua Resort (Office Road) and turn left at Lower Honoapiilani Road. Follow the road to D.T. Fleming Beach and turn left into the parking lot just past the pre school.

COURSE

Run Profile

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Comparing Kapalua to Makena is like comparing west to south. Simply put, they are two different places, even though on the same island of Maui.

So runners competing in the new XTERRA Kapalua Trail Run on the west end of Maui can expect many changes from the “old” south course at Makena. Where Makena was a dusty, rock strewn, sun-beating-down, grind-the-beach trail, the new course at Kapalua is green, in and out of the forest, yet still very challenging.

The start is similar to years past only in that it begins on a big, green lawn – this time at the fantastic Ritz Kapalua resort hotel. It is an easy run on golf course bike paths for the first half mile. The fun starts as the course passes under the highway through a short tunnel and heads up the mountain.

You'll face about 3 kilometers of uphill, wandering through an overgrown golf course, along dirt trails, through Oleander forests and alongside 60-foot high ironwood evergreens, to an unexpected mountain lake at the 650-foot level.

Your uphill is not finished as we'll take you on some old pineapple field roads for another mile up and around the lake and then to what we are calling the downhill delights. You will lose that altitude running a slalom through the old Kapalua Village golf course, which is now overgrown -- fabulously treed and with high green bermuda grasses -- then suddenly into the open with fantastic views of the Pacific.

Don't look out too long or you'll stumble. As you return to the 250-foot level there is a 200-meter technical, steep downhill into a gully next to the golf course, where you'll jump over and duck under fallen trees and end up in a huge, rocky dry creek – at least we hope it will be dry.

Then through thick elephant grass, into a Cook pine nursery, up a short rope-assisted scramble to a paved road that curves and climbs 100 feet to the head of a neat, narrow single track downhill with switchbacks that drop all the way down to the beach road. We simply had to throw in a calf busting 250-meter beach run back to the resort. Ahh, but the race isn't over yet until you climb the final 300 meters along a hedge protecting an ancient Hawaiian Heiau to the finish.

5K/10K DIVISIONS: (9 and under) (10-14) (15-19) (20-24) (25-29) (30-34) (35-39) (40-44) (45-49) (50-54) (55-59) (60-64) (65-69) (70-74) (75-79) (80+).

KIMO'S KEIKI K: 8-10 year olds will run a kilometer, with 6-7 year olds about half of that, and 5 and under 100 yards. Parents are welcome to run with their children).

AWARDS: Ceremony at 10:30am. Top three in each division are awarded medals. Awards ceremony follows the race. Winners must be present to receive their awards. The fastest male and female in the Hula Grill XTERRA 5K win shoes from XTERRA Footwear.

The fastest male and female in Duke’s Beach House XTERRA 10K win one round-trip ticket from the West Coast to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines (restrictions may apply).
Kimo’s Keiki K – all children receive a medal.

PAUL MITCHELL CUT-A-THON

Get a professional haircut at the Paul Mitchell Cut-a-thon, in exchange for a donation to the Challenged Athlete Foundation, Saturday, Oct 21 9am-12pm.

ATHLETE PHOTOS

We are happy to announce that Brightroom will be the official event photographer for athlete photos. Photos will be ready three to five days after the event. You can visit Brightroom now and sign up for email notification. They will alert you when the photos are ready for online viewing and ordering.

XTERRA World Championship

Maui, Hawaii | Sunday, October 28, 2012 | $105, 000 Purse

XTERRA Kapalua 5/10km Trail Run and Keiki K

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PAUL MITCHELL CUT-A-THON

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