People see the helmet with horns and think this guy is a character.
He is and it’s a conversation starter, and Cowman will enjoy your company if you throw him a shaka and extend some aloha.
Cowman, Marie Kuramoto (6:38:56), DJ Blinn (5:50:35), and David Hammes (5:06:30) — last year’s times from slowest to not-the-slowest — are known as the Big Island International Marathon’s Final Four.
They’ve run all 26.2-mile Hilo marathons with the original course that started in Pepeekeo and the new one that has the starting and finishing line at Hilo Bayfront, changed in 2014.