update: [Photos] courtesy Virginia Isbell
Results of the Third Annual Kukio Challenge event held today at Kukio's Uluweuweu Bay on the Kona-Kohala Coast of the Island of Hawaii.
The event consisted of a 1/2 mile swim, followed by a 3 mile run, then a 4 mile OC-1 or Surfski paddle or a 2 mile paddleboard.
A record number of participants took part this year in an event that seems to grow in prestige each year. Truly a class event, put together by Kukio and headed up by Thibert Lussiaa, with assistance from Hawaii Island Paddlesports Association, as well as Kukio employees and residents and many other Kona athletes and paddlers, who came out to cheer on and to assist their team-mates, in this aquatic triathlon.
