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40Th Annual Hawaii Pacific Health
Great Aloha Run 2024

Join us in-person, or Virtually! Walk, jog, or run with your friends and family to support dozens of Hawaii’s charities.
• Date: Monday, February 19, 2024
• Race Type: In-person OR Virtual
• In-person Starting Line: Aloha Tower
• Virtual Starting Line: Anywhere!
• Course length: 8.15 miles

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LAST YEAR 2023 Events (Click on Date for Details)

FEB 18, 2023
2023 Hawaii Pacific Health Keiki Great Aloha Run
2023-02-18 @ 07:30 AM
Ala Moana Beach Park
Race


FEB 18, 2023
2023 Hawaii Pacific Health Sports, Health and Fitness Expo
2023-02-18 @ 09:00 AM - 2023-02-18 @ 07:00 PM
Neal S. Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall 777 Ward Avenue, Honolulu HI 96814
Event


FEB 19, 2023
2023 Hawaii Pacific Health Sports, Health and Fitness Expo
2023-02-19 @ 09:00 AM - 2023-02-19 @ 05:00 PM
Neal S. Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall 777 Ward Avenue, Honolulu HI 96814
Event


FEB 2023
39th Annual Great Aloha Run
2023-02-20 @ 07:00 AM - 2023-02-20 @ 10:00 AM
Aloha Tower, 155 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96813
Race

WEBSITE
https://greataloharun.com/

RUNNERS TAKE YOUR MARK FOR CAROLE KAI!
Feb. 2023 race to complete 39 years of giving

HONOLULU — Runners take your mark! Feb. 20, 2023 will be Carole Kai’s final year as lead promoter and organizer. This will be your final chance to run with Carole in the 39th Hawaii Pacific Health Great Aloha Run and support some of your favorite charities. After nearly four decades of philanthropy for more than 150 nonprofit organizations, Carole Kai, the run’s co-founder and president, today announced.

“You can imagine how emotional this decision has been,” said Kai. “Since the first Great Aloha Run in 1985, we have been able to raise $16 million in support of more than 150 nonprofits. Watching as many as 25,000 people every year lace up their running shoes for their health and the health of our larger community, has been a tremendous gift.”

“At the same time, I look forward to enjoying more time with my husband, Eddie, and we are looking forward to traveling more.”

Deadline to register for early entry, which includes a discounted fee and a complimentary In-Training T- shirt, is Oct. 31. For more information or to register, visit www.greataloharun.com.
Kai pioneered the art of combining friendly competition with philanthropy in 1974, with the establishment of the Carole Kai Bed Race, which she ran until 1994. Eleven years after the first bed race, Kai and the late Jack Scaff, a cardiologist and founder of the Honolulu Marathon, co-founded the Great Aloha Run.

“The Great Aloha Run has always been a huge undertaking and its success is a direct reflection of our wonderful Volunteers, Board of Directors and staff,” said Kai. “But the bedrock of our success has been the support of our Community. The people of Hawaiʻi are tremendously compassionate and generous, and it is only through that spirit of Aloha that this run has been able to contribute so much to those in need.

“Even as I look forward to the next chapter of my life, I am filled with gratitude for what we have all been able to do for our Community.”

The Great Aloha Run Board of Directors will honor Kai’s commitment to Hawaiʻi in December with a half- hour retrospective broadcast on KHON2.

The Hawai‘i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run Expo will be Feb. 18-19, 2023, at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall and the final Hawai`i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run will be Monday, Feb. 20, 2023 (Presidents’ Day). Then, our final event, “Aloha, Great Aloha Run,” a celebration featuring Hawaii’s finest entertainers, will be Saturday, March 18.

“Although I am retiring and stepping back from the day-to-day operations of this event, my heart will always be with the Great Aloha Run and for the countless volunteers who have made the GAR what it is today!” Kai continued.
“I wish them well as they continue the tradition of raising needed dollars for our Community.”

ABOUT THE GREAT ALOHA RUN
The Great Aloha Run has achieved many milestones in its 38-year history. It was the first, largest first-time running event in the country with nearly 12,000 individuals signing up in its very first year. The Great Aloha Run has also been recognized nationally as one of the top “100 Great Road Races” by Runner’s World Magazine.

Over the past 38 years, the Great Aloha Run, Hawaii’s largest participatory race, has raised more than $15 million for more than 150 non-profit health and human service organizations and community groups throughout Hawaii. Traditionally, the Great Aloha Run is an 8.15-mile foot race that starts at Aloha Tower and finishes at the Aloha Stadium. There are divisions for elites, age groups, wheelchair and hand-cycle competitors, Sounds of Freedom (military running in formation) and those who walk the course with friends and socialize along the way in the Back of the Pack.


Great Aloha Run
414 Kuwili St, Suite 104
Honolulu, HI 96817
808.528.7388
https://greataloharun.com/

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4000 Volunteers are needed each year for various duties such as help in registration at the expo, data entry, staffing at the stadium, sign holders, and more! Each person that helps, receives a 2015 Volunteer T-shirt (while supplies last).

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For more information, visit our website, GREATALOHARUN.COM, or contact the GAR office at 528-7388.
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    CAROLE KAI BIO
    Great Aloha Run Founder


    Carole Kai was born on October 28, 1944, in St. Louis College (now High School, then a hospital) and is best known for the annual event that bore her name from 1974 -- 1994, The Carole Kai International Bed Race, which raised millions of dollars for 50 charities and the Military in Hawaii.

    In 1985 she co-founded The Great Aloha Run, an 8.15-mile charity run with Honolulu Marathon Founder, Dr. Jack Scaff. It started with 11,698 participants, which set a Guinness world record for the largest number of entrants in a first-time sporting event. Today, the GAR hosts more than 29,000 entrants and has raised over $9.65 million supporting 150 different charitable organizations in Hawaii. The Military in Hawaii has also received $900,000+ over the years.

    Carole was a professional singer, dancer, musician and recording artist, after receiving her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Hawaii. She performed in Waikiki venues: The Royal Hawaiian Hotel's Monarch Room, Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Outrigger Main Showroom, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Showroom and the Sheraton-Waikiki Ballroom. She worked on the Reno/Tahoe/Las Vegas circuit and throughout the major cities in Asia and the Far East.

    As a featured act at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe and Harrah's Hotel in Reno and Lake Tahoe, she opened for Roger Williams, Guy Lombardo, Shecky Greene, George Carlin and Don Rickles.

    Upon her return to Hawaii, Carole served on the Boards of Variety School of Hawaii, The Aloha Stadium Authority, American Heart Association, Girl Scouts Council of Hawaii to name a few. (Carole received the "Aloha Is" Award at the Na Hoku Hano Hano Awards on May 30, 2011).

    In 1993, Carole and her creative partners started the hit Karaoke television show, "Hawaii Stars"! They also produced "Keiki Stars", "Chefs in Paradise", "Jan Ken Po Hawaii-the Game Show of Hawaii", "Hawaii Stars" TV Documentaries (since 2008) and finally The Annual Weinberg Foundation Concert for the last 15 years -- a total of over 1,600 shows have been aired since 1993. *Four Documentaries were done on the Military in Hawaii (two of them won International Telly Savalas Awards.)

    Her last stage performances were with the wildly popular "Local Divas" that included the late Loyal Garner, Nohelani Cypriano, and Melveen Leed from 1998 to 2001 -- all local stars in the 60s through the mid-80s.

    Carole's great passion is for the Military, especially the Army. Her father was in Military Intelligence during WWII, her uncle and brother were in the Army, her cousin a West Point graduate. Carole's brother--in-law is a retired Air Force Colonel and husband, Eddie, was in the Army during the Viet Nam War. She was awarded the "Mana O Ke Koa" (Spirit of the Warrior) Award by the U.S. Army, Pacific and LTG Frank Wiercinski in June, 2011.

    Carole's sustenance is her strong Christian faith. Her motivation and inspiration comes from mother, Ethel, whose lifetime desire was to help others. Entertainer, dedicated volunteer, businesswoman, promoter, community leader and loyal friend, Carole Kai Onouye has led a very fulfilling life, thanks to her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

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