Honolulu is not a recovery week

People fly here and treat the island like a taper with pineapple. The ocean is real. The bike can be wind. The run is exposed. Local races — Honolulu Triathlon, Hibiscus, Great Aloha, Honolulu Marathon, Honu on the Big Island — are not participation stickers. They are the calendar we actually use.

Do: arrive early enough to sleep in this humidity. Don’t: test a new breakfast on race morning because it looked tropical. We eat food we have already suffered with. We write that down so you can steal it and argue with it.