By 2012 it was the 14th Annual, which puts the first run in 1999. It was always a “Run, Walk, or Wheel,” open to every pace and every body, decades before that was common. Each year carried its own theme and its own shirt.

Carl T. Calvo Bordallo Butler led the Guam Diabetes Association through this whole run, and ran it himself. After it went quiet around 2012 and 2013, it sat dormant for close to a decade until the community brought it back in 2023. His story is here.