FKT: Corin Kwasnik - Maunakea / Mauna Kea (HI) - 2022-04-19

Running from Hilo to the summit of Mauna Kea was an awesome way to explore the country side of Hawaii. I left boston as 3am on April 18th to start my transit to Hawaii. After a full day of traveling and landing at 7pm in Kona, I quickly gathered my supplies and woke up on the 19th at 4am for the sea to summit FKT. I started exactly at 4:45am from coconut island in Hilo. I followed Bayfront, turned up Kaumana until it merged with saddle road, then continued up saddle road until the turn on Mauna Kea Access road. I followed the access road up to visitors center and then continued another 8 miles on to summit. My pack weighed just under 18lbs which had all my food for the day and most of my water. Although I did fill up water for free at the visitor center, I still consider this to be completely unsupported. Overall, the first 30 miles flew by as I ran 10 min/miles for the first 5 hours. The next 14 mile stretch had 7300ft elevation gain and definitely slowed me down as I gained altitude. This route could definitely be done faster if someone was previously training at high altitude.