Palisadian Amy Katch has done something that perhaps only those with "spidey sense" might try to accomplish over the weekend. Katch rappelled 27 stories down theWit Hotel at the corner of State and Lake Street in Chicago during the May 5-6 weekend.

No, Katch wasn't out to nab the bad guys by swinging from building to building. She was one of 90 people who hovered 278 feet above the pavement for the "Skyline Plunge!," a fundraiser for the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.

According to a press release, many of the participants rappel for the thrill of scaling tall buildings. However, there are some who participate in memory of a loved one, or to honor someone affected by lung disease.

The group raised over $120,000 for lung disease research and programs.

There will be another Skyline Plunge! on September 8 and 9.

• For information about the event, or if you'd like to sponsor a participant, click here.
• For information about the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago, click here.

Motorists should be braced for brief road closures, but bicycle racing fans will have an up-close look for three days next Friday and Saturday when the Amgen Tour of California bike race winds through the mountains of Los Angeles County and finishes Sunday on the streets of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and downtown L.A.

On Sunday, some L.A. streets may be thronged with fans, but road closures will not be lengthy as the bike race passes any given spot relatively quickly, organizers said. Events at Sunday's finish line, at L.A. Live, are slated to wrap up by 1 p.m.

Sunday's race will start on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, then wind down the Sunset Strip into Hollywood. The bike race will follow the L.A. Marathon route — but backwards — towards Dodger Stadium and downtown.

The race will zigzag south past City Hall, past the Biltmore Hotel, then head up Bunker Hill to Walt Disney Hall. A final downhill sprint will lead to the finish line at Staples Center.

In Hollywood, this means all lanes of Hollywood Boulevard, between Orange Drive and the 101 Freeway, will be closed from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. (See the 2012 Amgen Tour Route in Los Angeles)

The nine-day bike race started Sunday in Santa Rosa, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Various legs of the race will be held in Central California, and a time trial was will be held on a circuit in Bakersfield next Thursday.

But Friday and Saturday is when the race will see several steep mountain segments, first on Saturday from Palmdale to Wrightwood and Big Bear Lake, then on Sunday from Ontario up to Mount Baldy Village, west through the rugged mountains and down to Azusa, and capped by a second steep dash up the switchback road to Mount Baldy Ski Area.

On Friday, the bike race will start in Palmdale, and use Sierra Highway south through the suburbs onto the Angeles Forest Highway. The course then forks east on Mount Emma Road, and winds through the mountains and back to the desert floor on Fort Tejon Road.

Racers will then make a major climb up Big Pines Highway to the Mountain High Ski Area, a 6,000-foot increase in altitude. After riding downhill on Highway 2 through Wrightwood, the bike racers will head east on state Route 138 to cross over Interstate 15 at Cajon Pass.

The Friday race course then continues east on routes 138 and 18 to Crestline and Lake Arrowhead, then uses Route 18 east to Big Bear Lake. racers will circle Big Bear Lake on the north and east sides, before finishing the day at the Snow Summit Ski Area.

On Saturday, racers will start in Ontario, head up steep Mount Baldy Road, then fork west on Glendora Ridge Road. After returning to the flatlands at Azusa, racers will head east back to the bottom of Mount Baldy Road, then head north to that day's finish line at the top of the switchbacks at the Mount Baldy Ski Area.

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Nike Basketball Camps is expanding its program to St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey this summer.

Two summer sessions taught by coach Ed Azzam and Reggie Morris will be offered for boys and girls. Each player will be placed on a team consisting of no more than 10 players.

Azzam is the head basketball coach at Westchester High School.

"There has never been a lack of basketball talent in the Los Angeles area, our goal is to combine this talent with great coaches and produce better players," said VP of Basketball Operations Brent Koonce in a statement. "Coach Azzam understands how to develop young players as well as anyone, we are very excited to be working with him at these new premier Southern California basketball camps." 

Registration costs are $195, and the two sessions run from either 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

For more information, visit the Nike Basketball Camp website.

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The worst-kept secret at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach is that the gym is closing its doors for good when its lease expires on June 30, 2014. With its 45 years of history, this Los Angeles landmark was once the second most popular tourist attraction in the LA area after Disneyland, but alas, times have changed and the ‘Mecca of Bodybuilding’ is slowly transforming into the Mecca of Millionaires, or ‘Silicon Beach’ in techno-blog-speak.

According to former Gold’s Gym Venice owner Ed Connors, Google has bought the building and the surrounding real estate, with grand designs on walling off the streets and creating a SoCal campus to rival its Mountain View ‘university’. If this is accurate, Gold’s Gym appears to have dropped the ball, and with undeveloped real estate (and mandatory) in the area in short supply, the death of Gold’s Venice is but a foregone conclusion.

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In years past the campus idea had been met with indifference, but with the passage of Santa Monica’s Bike Action Plan, a dedicated bike education space is finally a reality.

The facility is meant to provide a dedicated space for local LCI (League Certified Instructors), and area schools to teach bike safety principles in a safe space before working up to lessons involving live traffic. Setting aside such a space in Santa Monica was a longtime vision of Ron Durgin the general manager of the Santa Monica Bike Center and an LCI instructor himself. Durgin has taught bike safety classes for the City of West Hollywood and teaches classes in Santa Monica along with other instructors recently certified in the area.

The local LACBC chapter, Santa Monica Spoke, has also been advocating for the SMPD to provide a bike education diversion program (such as the one in Portland, OR and more locally in Huntington Beach) for bicyclists cited for moving violations. In such programs a traffic safety class is offered as a cheaper alternative to more stringent fees, and connects those committing violations with actual traffic instruction instead of just a brief moment in court. If such a diversion program is developed, this bike campus would likely become the facility to host such classes.

The painted lines of the bike campus have been in place for sometime now, but additional educational sign boards are going up that provide information for online resources including videos. For the grand opening at 12:30pm on Sunday, mayor Richard Bloom will be making an appearance, which will be followed by free bike training from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M. co-sponsored by Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District PTA Council, Santa Monica Bike Center and the City of Santa Monica.

This facility is a first for Los Angeles County, and marks a return to integrating bicycle traffic education into regular schooling; as well enhanced opportunities for instruction for adults looking to get back into riding, or improving their safe riding skills. The Santa Monica Bike Campus isn’t quite as elaborate as the “traffic gardens” used in the rigorous bike education programs of the Netherlands, but it’s a pretty good start, and one that makes good use of space that wasn’t getting much activity before. Now if only we can get the DMV to incorporate some real bike education into driving requirements, then we might really be on our way to safer interactions between drivers and bike riders.

Event Information:

• Sunday April 22nd at the western terminus of Ocean Park Blvd. adjacent the bike path (map)
• Opening ceremony with mayor Richard Bloom at 12:30pm
• Classes, Activities & Raffle from 1:00pm-3:00pm

In New York, there’s a tradition to do yearly transit races where a cyclist, a bus and a transit rider race from a common starting point to jobs in Manhattan. Streetfilms captured several of those races on films one of the more dramatic ones is above.

Now it’s our turn. Next Wednesday, eight days from now, we’re going to shoot our own transit race. Our race is going to cover the future Westside Bus Rapid Transit route on Wilshire Boulevard. We have a cyclist, a bus rider and a car driver all ready to go but we need both some volunteers to run cameras and someone to volunteer to walk the route as part of the race. If someone is really interested in being the bus rider, we can switch as right now I’m the bus rider in the race.

If you’re interested in volunteering, please email damien@streetsblog.org. The race begins at 5:00 P.M., but we’ll need you to get to the starting line a little earlier. We will provide further directions via email to those interested.

Attention to the fitness club's seaside location starts at the entrance. Aaron Richter, Equinox vice president of design, points out that the check-in desk is made of fiberglass. "An homage to surfing," he said.

The beachy vibe continues throughout the airy, 30,000-square-foot club -- Equinox's 13th in Southern California. Retractable glass doors in the cafe (think roll-up garage doors made of glass) open out to the patio, and there's driftwood-colored paneling on some walls, hand-carved stone reminiscent of waves on the walls outside the men's and women's dressing rooms and cross-cut bamboo flooring in the yoga studio. Instead of a conventional ceiling, the main exercise studio has a room-size skylight, which suffuses the room with light. The cardio and weight areas are flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows.

There's no hiding from the light -- or the knowledge that it's time to get ready for that swimsuit.

13455 Maxella Ave., Marina Del Rey. (310) 306-1000. Open 5:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 5:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Friday; 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.  

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Photo: The check-in desk at Equinox at Marina Del Rey. Credit: Nancie Clare / Los Angeles Times

CicLAvia route - South Central/Boyle Heights section

Real Ridaz Bike Club - African American Firefighter's Museum

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

In an announcement that caught even some CicLAvia organizers by surprise, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced this morning at the “CicLAvia opening” that CicLAvia partners Bike Nation will establish a permanent footprint in Los Angeles this December. The cost to the city will be minimal, as Bike Nation promises to pay for all of the 4,000 bikes and 400 kiosks coming to Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice Beach and Westwood. Bike Nation estimates it could take a full year to complete the installation.

“In tough economic times like these, we knew it wasn’t feasible to start a public bike share program,” explains Villaraigosa of the $16 million investment by Bike Nation. ”But we know it’s what LA needs. As we’ve seen with CicLAvia and ‘Carmaheaven,’ Angelenos are aching for a day without a car.”

Coca-Cola building built in the shape of an ocean liner - 14th and Central Ave.

Bikes came in all shapes and sizes

As did helmets!

Engine company 30

Real Ridaz bikes

Real Ridaz bikes

Flier advertising future South Central Bike rides

Guess that's not really his day job.

Real Ridaz club member reflected in one his bike's MANY mirrors

Entering the downtown cooridor

LA City Hall

garment district shops

OMG! A round-about!!!!!

Spring Street round-about traffic

bubbles!!!!

showing off

This man needs a sandwich

Crossing the LA River

 

REI-sponsored rock climbing wall at Hollenbeck Park

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Soul Skating LA
770 S. Boyle Ave.
Boyle Heights, CA 90023
(323) 266-6611
www.soulskaltingla.com

Hours: Mon to Thur – 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., Fri – 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., Sat – 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sun – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

As the name suggests, this outfit is devoted to skateboarding culture in every sense, from running workshops to hosting events devoted to what has become a global athletic movement. As for the SK8 shop within Soul Skating LA, expect an alluring array of decks, accessories and art to equip customers ready to ride at nearby Hollenbeck Park Skate Plaza, only one block south of this full-service store, or in any of the other skate parks provided by the City of Angels.

District Skateboard
12015 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(310) 391-9430

Hours: Mon to Sat – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sun – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Hanging around the wild and crazy Venice boardwalk scene can make a person suddenly want to to take part by skating on wheels of any type. For a quick skateboard purchase to use then and there, and then, afterward, stop by this handy shop for basic needs as well as quick repair parts should that be necessary to be on your way to board in full view of the mighty Pacific.

Related: A Guide to Venice Beach

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L.A. Skate
2420 Hyperion Avenue
Los Angeles
(323) 669-8332
www.laskate.com

Hours: Mon to Fri – 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., Sat – 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sun – 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

This small shop frequented by locals and situated on the line that divides Silver Lake and Los Feliz has been around for generations as arguably the oldest of its type in Los Angeles. Beginners are welcome here where experienced customers often pitch in with suggestions, comparing notes with knowledgeable staff who have customers up and boarding in as much time as it takes to climb up the steep hill that fronts this skateboarder’s mecca. By the way, after that, the ride down to Hyperion Ave. is a breeze.

Non Factory
110 S San Pedro St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 620-0314

Hours: Sun to Tues – 12 p.m. – 8 p.m., Wed to Sat – 12 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Non Factory staff live and breathe skateboarding so much so that their shop runs a team devoted to the sport. Beyond competing in local and regional competitions (many won by this particular team), these athletic folks who frequent this Little Tokyo outlet know this is the go-to place for hardware, wheels, longboards and, of course, short boards, as well as the latest in hipster skateboard garb, too. Buyers can expect expert service from this downtown haven that not only includes board and foot sizing for the best ride, but also helpful advice about which product is best for that customer’s particular needs.

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Collective Skate Shop
3105 West 6th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90020
(213) 384-6326

Hours: Mon to Sat – 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sun – 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Flocks of street boarders frequent Koreatown, so this area shop comes in handy for those rollers who not only depend on this spot for its convenience during a breakdown, but also when looking to restore or replace the ride of the moment. From start-up brands to the latest and greatest names out there, boards abound in this friendly outlet that even carries spray paint. Talk about full service.

Related: LA’s Guide to Roller Skating Rinks

Los Angeles freelance travel writer Jane Lasky, contributes to publications such as Travel + Leisure, Vogue and Esquire. Her weekly sojourning column ran in 40 newspapers for 20 years. Jane is anything but an accidental tourist. Check out her articles on Examiner.com.

There were no major incidents during the event, which ran from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and there appear to have been no arrests, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.

This was Los Angeles’ fourth CicLAvia, which shut down numerous streets to traffic from East Los Angeles to East Hollywood and turned them into one big bike lane. The first event was held in 2010.

The event is intended to inspire people to get out of their cars, explore the city and burn a few calories at the same time.

Ten miles of city streets in and around downtown were blocked off as cyclists and pedestrians enjoyed music, food and a range of activities from rock climbing to dancing.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also used the event to unveil a new $16-million, privately funded bike share program that aims to add 4,000 bicycles at 400 kiosks across the city.

The idea of shutting down part of a city to motor vehicles began as a weekly ciclovia (Spanish for “bike path”) event in Bogota, Colombia, almost four decades ago and was later adopted by several cities in Latin America and the United States.

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Photo: Mushu the dog rides in a backpack with owner Cristy Ibarra, 23, near the African American Firefighters Museum on Central Avenue on Sunday. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

Hollenbeck Park at the eastern end of CicLAvia is one of the hottest spots on the map, but there are a lot of great CicLAvia activities on the Eastside.

Though Hollenbeck Park is the jumping off point for many people in the Eastside to experience CicLavia, there are organized bike rides starting out on the eastside, and parties in the street itself, and intersections that will be teeming with activities both on and off the route. At the park itself, CicLAvia has a merchandise booth  and REI Los Angles hosts a rocking climbing wall.  Whether starting at the park, joining a group ride, or just planning a day in the sun by yourself, the eastside has a lot to offer.  Check it out:

Building Healthy Communities, Boyle Heights Ride and Party

Building Healthy Communities, Boyle Heights, hosts a youth ride that starts at 11:30 A.M. at the Weingart East YMCA at 2900 Whittier Boulevard. Families, youth, and members from Jovenes Inc., Inner City Struggle, Legacy LA, and Hollenbeck Police Activity League will all join the BHCBH contingent.  The group will ride at a leisurely pace throughout the route, said Eric Hubbard, development director for Jovenes Inc.

The group plans to arrive at Hollenbeck Park between noon and 12:15 P.M. before they ride CicLAvia. Last year, more than 45 people rode with this group for CicLAvia, Hubbard said. Adult supervisors will be riding throughout the event coordinating the group, making sure everyone is safe and the groups stays together. “We’re trying to come together for the Boyle Heights Community,” said Hubbard.  The group will ride until 3 P.M., and then return to the YMCA, where there will be a free quesadillas, chalking activities in the parking lot, and other community building activities.

A father and his son cross the 4th Street bridge into Downtown Los Angeles. The 4th Street bridge provides one of the best views of downtown and is active the day of the event with mobile photo booths that will be around the bridge. Photo: Misneighbors.com

Ovarian-Pscyo Bicycle Brigade adopts the  4^th Street and Boyle Avenue intersection, offers free silk screening

Just hosting an intersection to manage the traffic of bicycles and pedestrians isn’t enough for the Oviarian-Psyco Bicycle Brigade.  Ova core member Cinthia Garcia desinged an Ovarian-Psycos/Boyle Heights/CicLAvia image that will be silk screened for free at the intersection the group adopted for CicLAvia, 4th Street and Boyle Avenue.  They will be playing music from a PA system, one of the members Xela de la X might perform her works of underground hip-hop. CicLAvia also provides a great opportunity to promote their all-female styled Critical Mass ride called Clitoral Mass.

DREAM Riders Contingent

Some of the DREAM riders that organized the DREAM Ride from Orange County to Los Angeles in February will meet at 10 A.M. at Hollenbeck Park to ride CicLAvia. This group has ridden in past CicLAvias to and show the connection the immigrant community has with cycling and exemplify the people that could be affected by the DREAM Act, a federal law that would allow undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. The DREAM Riders have donned lucha libre masks, and installed PVC pipes on the back of their bikes with flags hanging off the poles with messages like “Sin Papers, y ke?” or “No papers, and what?” One of the groups founders and local resident Erick Huerta said he will be projecting music, specifically cumbia, from his backpack, and clanging his cowbell during the ride.

213 FB Hikers Ride

Blogger and DREAM activist Erick Huerta rides out at last April's CicLAvia with the the DREAM Act contingent. The group will be riding out at 10 am from Hollenbeck Park. Photo by Rafael Cardenas (Eastsiderwriter.com)

The 213 FB hikers, a recreational hiking group that focuses on wellness and healthy living, will be meeting at 9 A.M. at Metro Auto Service, on the Corner of 1^st Street and State Street. The group, a majority of which are from Boyle Heights, plans to ride to Los Angeles City College, and then to the South Los Angeles hub. The 213 FB Hikers started in July as a hiking group that explores Griffith Park every Tuesday night at 7 P.M. and Saturday morning at 7:15 A.M. To learn more about the group click here.

4^st Street bridge

It’s one of the main arteries that connects downtown Los Angeles to Boyle Heights and it provides one of the best views of Downtown. A mobile photo booth will be at the bridge taking profile photos of bicyclists and pedestrians.

1^st street bike lane/Mariachi Plaza/Mariachi Festival

Though the CicLAvia route wasn’t able to extend to Mariachi Plaza at 1^st Street, the adventurous pedestrian can head north on Boyle Avenue to check out the only other green striped bike lane in Los Angeles. The 21st annual Mariachi Festival will be going on at Mariachi Plaza from 11 A.M.-4 P.M. Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz will serve as the master of ceremonies. Down the block, Primera Taza Coffee House will offer free conchita sweet bread with a purchase of a coffee. There are many restaurants that can be found on 1st Street, such as Placita del D.F. restaurant, where Huerta recommends the cemita and aguas frescas.

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A hiker was airlifted from the Temescal Gateway Park area Monday afternoon after suffering from an unknown illness, says the Los Angeles Fire Department.

According to LAFD spokesman Matt Spence, Fire Station 69 was on the scene and, with the assistance of a helicopter crew, transported the adult male hiker to a local hospital.

Spence did not have details on the nature of the hiker's illness. However, he warned that hikers should never head out on a demanding trail unless they are in good enough physical health to handle the terrain.

Spence also offered up the following safety tips:

• Bring enough water.
• Make sure you are healthy enough to hike, especially if you're hiking in the deep fire roads.
• Be mindful of the wildlife you are sharing the area with, including snakes and coyotes.
• Bring a cellphone when possible.
• Let someone know you are hiking and what trails you may take.

Spence also mentioned that if you are hiking in a remote area, you may want to park your car in a visible location and leave a note inside. That way, if you get lost someone knows where you were headed.

EarthBar closed its original free-standing Santa Monica location a couple of years ago when it folded into Equinox on 2nd, though the brand still operates a popular free-standing location in West Hollywood. Great Earth Vitamins in Brentwood currently sells EarthBar's bottled juices, but come "June or July," the space will morph to incorporate EarthBar's fresh juice bar as well.
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Read an entire article from the LA Times here.

In the 1960s, Larry Stevenson’s Makaha skateboards helped merge surfing and skateboard cultures. He also publicized the activity as publisher of Surf Guide magazine.

Excerpts from the Times article say:

“Larry Stevenson, a Venice Beach lifeguard who helped popularize skateboarding in the early 1960s by marketing his Makaha boards to riders eager to essentially surf on land, has died. He was 81.

Stevenson, who hadParkinson’s disease, died Sunday at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, said his son, Curt.

“He was the guy who said, ‘I can merge surfing with the skateboard culture,’” said Michael Brooke, author of the 1999 skateboarding history “The Concrete Wave.” “At one point in time, there was nobody bigger making skateboards.”

From his lifeguard tower, Stevenson noticed kids riding rickety, often homemade, skateboards, and he had an epiphany, he later recalled. He knew he could engineer a better skateboard and, as publisher of Surf Guide, used the magazine to link the wheeled pastime to the exploding surf scene.”

In 1965, theAmerican Medical Assn.labeled skateboards “a new medical menace.” A variety of skateboards had flooded the market and riders were increasingly injured. Safety experts urged stores not to sell skateboards and advised parents not to buy them.

The fad died as quickly as it began, as did sales for Makaha.

“One week I was getting so many orders, people were leaving them on my doorstep. … The next, I was getting 75,000 cancellations in a single day!” Stevenson recalled in “The Skateboarder’s Bible” (1976).

He shut down the factory in 1966 and returned to his lifeguard chair, but he continued to ponder building a better skateboard.”

A service is planned at Venice Beach. Details will be posted at Stevenson’s Facebook page,http://www.facebook.com/RichardLStevenson.

The facebook page also has many amazing photographs!

The world famous Santa Monica Pier and the Honolua Surf Co. kick off the summer of 2012 with the Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival, featuring ocean swims, SUP and paddleboard races, dory competitions, live music and a surfing, lifeguard and paddleboard “museum for the day.”

The event is a benefit for Heal the Bay and its public marine education facility, the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. Heal the Bay will receive a portion of net proceeds from the event.

The waterman “museum for the day” on the pier deck will feature antique surfboards, paddleboards and lifeguard equipment. Paddleboard racing was a popular Santa Monica sport in the 1940s with two paddleboard clubs headquartered on the pier.

The family fun happens all day on Saturday, June 9th, from 8:30 am to 3 pm. Don’t miss it!

Schedule & Info

The Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival is an all-day, family friendly celebration of decades of surf, paddleboard and lifeguard history. The festival will feature live entertainment all day long, including Hawaiian-style slack-key guitar, hula dance troupes and a return live performance by the FuDogs.

Come check out the largest-of-it’s-kind exhibits of antique surfboards and paddleboards from the area, artifacts, historic photographs as well as classic cars from the California beach culture.

Heal the Bay will provide on-site education beach, ocean and waterway stewardship and trivia contests for kids of all ages.

DRAFT SCHEDULE (Subject to Change)
7:30 am      Race Registration opens
8:45 am      Hawaiian Blessing
9:00 am      Dory Race – One Mile Sprint
9:15 am      One Mile Ocean Swim
9:30 am      Hula and Live Music
10:00 am    ”Pop-Up” History Museum Opens
10:30 am    Paddleboard & SUP Fun Course
10:45 am    Hula and Live Music
11:30 am    Run-Swim–Run
Noon          Paddleboard & SUP Long Course
12:10 pm    Dory Race – 3 Lap
12:15 pm    Competitor Lunch
12:15 pm    Awards for Fun Course and Swim Races
12:30 pm    Hula and Live Music
1:15 pm      Heal the Bay Children’s Art Contest Awards Ceremony
2:00 pm     Luck-of-the-Draw SUP Relay
2:30 pm      Hula and Live Music
2:45 pm      Awards for Long Course, Relay and Dory Races
3:00 pm      More Hula and Live Music!