1979 Honolulu Marathon

The thing that strucked me when I saw this B/W photo at the 2009 Honolulu Marathon Expo was the 1979 Volunteer T-Shirt. It was the year I was born.

I did google on "1979 Honolulu Marathon" and found some trace of this woman in the photo:

Patti Lyons, a 26-year-old Boston resident, successfully defended her women's title. Her time of 2:40:06 was more than three minutes better than the course record she set last year and less than two minutes short of her personal best, a 2:38:22 in Boston earlier this year.

The race got under way in front of Aloha Tower in the early morning darkness. The wheel-chair participants rolled away at 5:30 a.m. and then the blast of a cannon and fireworks sent the runners off at 6 a.m. The streets were still wet from a shower earlier in the morning, but conditions were otherwise good.

(excerpted from the Honolulu Advertiser, Monday, December 10, 1979)
The 7th Annual Honolulu Marathon was held
Sunday, December 9, 1979.http://www.honolulumarathon.org/?s=1979