Honolulu Marathon   Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008  Location:
Honolulu, HI   Ivuti of Kenya won in 2:14:35, beating fellow
Kenyan Stephen Njorge-Kinyanjui by more than three minutes.
Ivuti, the 2007 Chicago Marathon winner, broke from a pack of
Kenyans about halfway through the course. He is the brother-in-
law of six-time Honolulu champion Jimmy Muindi who finished 5th
in 2:21:43.  On a day when President-elect Barack Obama's half-
sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng was an official race co-starter, Kenyans
swept the top five spots in the men's race.    Shimahara became
only the second Japanese citizen to win at the Honolulu Marathon
in either the women's or men's races. She won in 2:32:36,
beating her running club (Second Wind AC) teammate, Kaori
Yoshida, by 2 minutes.  Shimahara, bothered by an unsettled
stomach, stayed with Kenya's Alice Timbilili who ran a
determined race. Timbilili gained about a 10-meter lead near the
17-mile mark but Shimahara erased it. By mile 21 Shimahara began
to pull away.  Eri Hayakawa was