Mind Over Miles

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge will be held Sunday June 22, 2025.  The event grounds will open at 5:30am.  All participants and support team members should arrive at the event by 6:30am.  The race will start at 7am.  The event will end when all participants have been eliminated or 12 hours after the start at 7pm, whichever comes first.

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge will be held on the grounds of the Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Orchards south of Hilo.  Specific directions to the race site will be sent to all participants a week before the event.  The entire course will be within the orchard on a dirt trail.  Support team members will be able to set up pop-up tents near the start line of the loop.   Parking at the event is very limited so participants and support team members are encouraged to travel together.

The 1-20-12 Endurance Event is a 1-mile loop on an unpaved trail within a macadamia nut orchard.  The uneven terrain is made of grass, dirt and gravel with occasional tree roots.  The loop is mostly shaded.  The 1-mile race loop ranges from 159 feet to 219 feet in elevation.

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge 1-mile loop is on the grounds of a privately owned, commercial macadamia nut orchard.  For your safety, participants are not allowed to access the event grounds before the race day.

This year, participants can register to compete for up to 3 hours (9 miles total) or up to 6 hours (18 miles total). Individuals and teams of 2 can also register to compete for up to 12 hours. Your race ends when you cannot compete 1-mile loop within 20 minutes or when your registered timeframe ends: 3 hours, 6, hours or 12 hours.

Participants can compete in the 12-hour 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge as a team of 2.  Pairs must register as a team on the Runsignup page (registration link below).  Teams of 2 must alternate each mile.  If a member of the pair fails to complete the 1-mile loop in 20 minutes both team members will be eliminated.  

1-20-12 Endurance Challenge participants are allowed to use headphones, fitness watches, walking sticks, and headlamps.  You should bring all of your own hydration, food, and changes of clothing .  Participants are allowed to set up 1, 10'x10' pop up tent that their support team can occupy.  All tents must be weighted and secured.  The event will begin at 7am so that adequate morning light will be available.  The event will continue until all participants have been eliminated or until 7pm.  The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge is an all weather event so participants should be prepared to compete in sun, rain, wind, and heat.

1-20-12 Endurance Challenge participants are NOT allowed : any pets, unattended children, generators, loud music, alcohol, drugs, or weapons of any kind.

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge event grounds will be open at 6:00am.  The entrance to the event grounds will be clearly signed.  All participants and support team members should arrive at the event grounds no later than 6:30am and park in the designated parking area.  Participants must check-in at the Vivawell tent first for instructions and to receive your race packet containing your required wrist band.  After checking in, participants and support team members can erect and secure their 10'x10' tents in the designated area.

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge does not time individuals and teams. The only time that matters to us is that you complete each 1 mile loop within 20 minutes. We do not keep track of the place of each racer, only how many loops racers complete. There is a continuous 20 minute timer visible at the start/finish line. One minute before the start of each 1-mile loop, racers will hear a warning cowbell. The start of each 20 minute loop will begin with a whistle. 

If a participant finishes the 1 mile loop before the 20 minute time limit they can rest in the designated support team area.  Participants can eat, drink, change clothes and use the port-o-potty/handwashing station during this resting period.  The participant cannot start the next 1-mile loop until the next 20 minute time period begins.  All participants must be within the designated start area at the beginning of each 20 minute loop or they will be eliminated.

Participants who do not compete a mile loop within 20 minutes should still make heir way to the start/finish line in order to be officially eliminated and have your wrist band removed. Please do not just leave the race area.

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge will end when all participants have been eliminated or 12 hours after the start, at 7pm.  Anyone still competing at the end of their registered race (3 hours, 6 hours or 12 hours) will be considered winners of that event.  Because the course takes place on private property, on the working Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Orchards company grounds, organizers and participants of the 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge are only authorized to be on the premises Sunday June 22, 2025 and must leave the property as soon as the event concludes.

All participants will receive a race t-shirt upon check-in at he event. Shoe bar medals will be awarded to competitors in each bracket: 3 hour, 6 hour and 12 hour finishers. 

The 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge is a fundraising event for Vivawell.org, a Hawaii-Island based 501c3 health promotion nonprofit organization.  All proceeds from the event will support Vivawell's community-based programs on Hawaii Island aimed at preventing chronic health conditions with lifestyle changes.  Vivawell is supported by the Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Company and the Big Island Road Runners to produce the 1-20-12 Endurance Challenge.

Email Sara at vivawellorg@gmail.com, or call/text her at 808-494-2111.