As a boy he was brought up in a harsh and cruel environment with a drunk for a father and a drug addict for a mother. Despite this he has still turned out to be the best charity runner we have ever seen. During his school years the only escape he got from the horrible situation at home was running, swimming in his school’s pool and stealing a ride on his mates’ bikes, and that’s just what he did, he became the world’s best triathlete. He would always hang around with the girls from the school although it seemed that he was not going out with any of them but then who knows. From about the age of twelve he started to have an obsession about Hawaii and hula girls as well as grass skirts, getting him the nickname Hula man. He also ran for Kent and then later England, but found that it was not a huge amount of fun.
Chris became a costumed runner in 1985 when he ran his second Examiner 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.
