Not that I participated! Hell no, I was a spectator and the most exercise I did that day was lifting glasses of Mai Tai. Those athletes did know how to party though. Ali'i Drive in Kona was a madhouse until the wee hours of the morning.
Yeah, the loudspeaker greeting the finishers is easily heard miles up the slope where we live as they continue to greet the late ones. So what if it is midnight, what they did is borderline unbelievable.