Today is the Honolulu Marathon, and the 40,000 runners stream past our house beginning with the elite group around 7 a.m., and continuing through the day. Our street isn’t open to cars until sometime late in the morning, when the remaining runners will now walking, and pass by along with costumed runners, runners on stilts, etc.

Before we left, I had a plan. I moved one of my little cat cams so that it looks out the kitchen window. My idea was to take advantage of the time difference and be ready to watch the elite runners go by somewhere around 7 a.m. Hawaii time. It was a good plan, but I bombed out on the execution phase. We finished breakfast just in time to watch the elite group, but I forgot!

And by 8:45 or so Hawaii time, when I got around to looking, there was already a mix of entrants now walking toward the finish line, while others ran past them.

Our house is located toward the end of the Marathon’s mile 23, with just over three miles to go to the finish.

So it goes. I’m attaching a photo that shows I would have had a good view of the elite group had I not spaced it out. And it seems one of the calicos has taken up a position so that she can observe the action.