... Bay to Breakers 12K road race covered in real flower leis. The next year, donned in hula-skirt and homemade carnation leis, Hula man made his debut. He has returned in an assortment of colourful outfits every year since, but the hula-skirt and leis remain his trademark guise. A costume contest prizewinner in over a dozen races, he takes being a comic costume runner very seriously. Once he carried a 35-pound replica of a London phone booth 12 kilometres while dressed as the "Phantom of the Operator." Another attention grabber was his full size Port-o-Potty. Hula man strives for new challenges all the time so his oversized costumes keep getting wilder and crazier. In 1992, unrelenting despair made it necessary for him to give up drugs and alcohol for good. He turned to exercise to help him stay sober. One day on a training run, a twisted ankle ended his ...

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