Hawaiian ultrarunner sets 220K FKT around island of Oahu
In his first run farther than 100 miles, Jeremy Killeen beat the Oahu Circumnavigation record by almost four hours
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Jeremy Killeen of Honolulu, Hawaii, is new to ultrarunning, but he seems to have a knack for it. Although Killeen, a 25-year-old U.S. Navy petty officer and musician, only ran his first ultramarathon in April, he recently completed a 220K route around the Hawaiian island of Oahu (where Honolulu is located). He finished the run in 32 hours, 55 minutes, smashing the fastest known time (FKT) on the route — named the Oahu Circumnavigation — by almost four hours.
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Circumnavigating Oahu
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Killeen beat fellow Honolulu resident Erik Hauptmann‘s FKT of 36 hours, 31 minutes from February 2019. He averaged about nine minutes per kilometre throughout the run. This feat is impressive enough, but Killeen’s inexperience with ultra distances adds to the accomplishment. As he said in an Instagram post in April, he ran his first half-marathon in 2019, after which he told himself, “I am never doing that again.” He of course broke that promise to himself, and ran even farther in his next race, which was a virtual 50K in April.
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Since then, he has been climbing up in distance, and his first crack at 100 miles was the Oahu Circumnavigation (which added another 60K to that milestone for good measure). Killeen is still so new to this sport, and he already has an enormous FKT to his name, something he says he “would have thought was impossible” a year ago. He hasn’t hinted at his next goal, but there are a number of other established FKTs on Oahu and Hawaii’s other islands, so this probably won’t be Killeen’s last route record.
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