I was very fortunate to have run the Honolulu marathon on December 9th. There were some 31,000 runners signed up to run so I knew it would be very crowded. I live about a 20 minute walk from the starting line so I walked to the start as I usually do and slowly made my way into the crowd to a point that I wanted to start from. When I got myself set to where I wanted to start at I at the runner standing next to me and couldn’t believe that he was an old friend of mine that I hadn’t seen in about two years! Once the race started I had another unlikely meeting with a friend who just happened to be running next to me! As I was heading down Kalanianole highway someone yelled my name from a group of runners going in the opposite direction and once again an old friend of mine. Finally, when I went to pick up my shirt at the pick up booth, the person standing in front of me was a friend that I hadn’t seen in about 3 years. So even though there were so many runners I ended up seeing about 5 or 6 people that I haven’t seen in a very long time.