Kaaawa resident Shad Anderson made the local news again, this time for taking his backwards running routine to the hike up Koko Crater (KITV: “Man climbs Koko Crater backwards every week“).

Last year, he ran (backwards, of course) from Santa Monica to San Francisco.

We periodically see him training, sometimes running backwards along Kamehameha Highway in Kaaawa. Recently he tried a different routine, running backwards in waist-deep water along the Kaaawa shoreline. That looked like a real challenge.

In 2012, he graced the cover of my annual Kaaawa calendar, but not while running.

He’s the real thing.