Lilac Bloomsday Run

Lilac Bloomsday Run

The Lilac Bloomsday Run is an annual timed road race in Spokane, Washington, held on the first Sunday of every May since 1977. The course is 12km (7.46mi) long. The course starts in downtown Spokane and heads northwest along the far west end of town, passes by Mukogowa Ft. Wright and Spokane Falls Community College before heading up Doomsday Hill and back downtown to the County Courthouse. Every finisher of the race receives a Bloomsday T-shirt.

The Lilac Bloomsday Run has had over 40,000 participants every year since 1986. Race participation peaked in 1996 with 61,298 registered participants making it, at the time, the world's largest footrace. The number of registrants in 2008 was 47,528.

Don Kardong, who founded the Bloomsday race, cites James Joyce's "Ulysses" as the inspiration for the name Bloomsday.

External links

* [http://www.bloomsdayrun.org/ Official Web site of the Bloomsday Run]


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