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Stories related to BloomsdayShowing up to 25 most recent stories (5/5/2008) From Superwoman to Uncle Sam, from green Mohawks to the Blues Brothers, Bloomsday has a way of bringing out the whimsical side of participants. (5/5/2008) Maybe spring was just waiting for Bloomsday.Under cloudless skies, more than 43,300 people completed Spokane's annual road race and civic party, about 3,000 more than last year, said Jerry O'Neal, a race official and spokesman. Given the occasionally snowy spring, Sunday's sunshine left everyone elated. (5/4/2008) Three buses pull up to the DoubleTree Hotel in Spokane on Friday afternoon before Bloomsday weekend. A camera crew jumps out of each and starts filming as the other passengers pour out behind them. (5/3/2008) Andrew Coleman had narrowed his choice of running shoes to two styles of Brooks - Adrenalines and Trances. (5/3/2008) Defending champion John Korir, the only three-time men's winner of the Lilac Bloomsday Run, will return to Sunday's 32nd annual running of the 12-kilometer event in search of another title. (5/2/2008) The 32nd annual Lilac Bloomsday Run is Sunday, and many Bloomies will arrive in Spokane today. You'll notice bigger crowds in shops and restaurants, particularly those serving the pasta dishes that have become a Bloomsday tradition. (5/1/2008) For many Bloomies, slogging up the course's legendary hills becomes a feat of endurance.Try completing Bloomsday with muscles that don't always perform. (4/30/2008) More than 40 years ago, Kathrine Switzer was the only woman running in the Boston Marathon – and she had to sneak in and avoid aggressive race officials just to finish. (4/29/2008) The Bloomsday bug bit Victor Rogers in 2001. He was 90. This week the 97-year-old Kennewick resident and oldest 2008 registrant hopes to walk the 7.46-mile course for the seventh time – regardless of the weather. (4/29/2008) Kim Jones, after dabbling in track as a sprinter in high school, had pretty much resigned herself to recreational running back in 1982, when she first saw television coverage of the Lilac Bloomsday Run. (2/27/2008) It's a sure indicator that spring is around the corner when Don Kardong, founder and race director of Bloomsday, gathers his troops and kicks off another Bloomsday season. (5/8/2007) On Monday morning, Geiger Corrections officials wondered what to do with the thousands of pounds of discarded running gear collected by an inmate work crew following Sunday's Bloomsday. (5/7/2007) One of the largest contingencies of Bloomsday runners belonged to Tom's Team, a grass-roots group formed in recent weeks to help sustain 17-year-old Tom Everett's spirits. (5/7/2007) Officially, 28 groups of performers – including belly dancers and bluegrass groups – received formal invitations this year from the Lilac Bloomsday Run committee to rally the 40,000-plus racers expected to ply the 12-kilometer course. (5/7/2007) Two trailers were piled with an estimated 8,000 pounds apiece of discarded sweatshirts, flannel shirts, fleece hats and gloves after the chilly start to Sunday's run. (5/7/2007) Mbarak Hussein had heard about the notorious hills of the annual Lilac Bloomsday Run. But after twice finishing in the top five of the Boston Marathon – a race also known for punishing hills – the 42-year-old runner from Albuquerque, N.M., didn't think the short, little race in Spokane was anything to worry about. (5/7/2007) Nothing that happened on Sunday was unfamiliar to John Korir. The sights, the sounds and the feeling of crossing the Bloomsday finish line first – he'd seen it and done it all before. (5/7/2007) First, Kenyan Edna Kiplagat held her ground. Then she pulled away.Kiplagat and Teyba Erkesso essentially ran stride-for-stride for the first five-plus miles of Bloomsday. Erkesso tried to gain some separation on Doomsday Hill, but Kiplagat kept her bright orange running shoes right on Erkesso's heels. When the two reached the top of the hill, it was Kiplagat's turn to make a move, pulling away from Erkesso to win the elite women's race in a time of 38 minutes, 52 seconds. Erkesso finished the 7.46 miles in 39:22, holding off third-place Emily Chebet by five seconds. (5/6/2007) Running might be the last thing on some folks' minds the morning after Cinco de Mayo. But for an estimated 50,000, today marks a different holiday – the Bloomsday Run. (5/6/2007) Walking with 3-year-olds can be a bit like herding cats, but it's all par for the course at the annual Marmot March – the kiddie version of Bloomsday minus the miles, the crowds and the pressure of a stopwatch. (5/5/2007) For Bloomsday, more than 40,000 runners run the same course – and also pick up their race number in an organized frenzy that for some is almost as fun as the race itself. (5/5/2007) There are certain things expected at every Bloomsday – Kenyans favored to win the elite races and Saul Mendoza finishing first in the men's elite wheelchair race. (5/4/2007) There'll be some new, madcap characters at every mile marker on the Bloomsday course this year."Beehive Betty," "Louis Legstrong" and "Stroller Mom" will be among seven brightly colored metal sculptures created especially for the race by Annie Trunkle-Smart, aka Blowtorch Annie. (5/3/2007) SANDPOINT – Thirty years ago, as he neared his 49th birthday, John Howard quit smoking and started running a mile a day. Two weeks later he was running Bloomsday. (5/2/2007) One defending champion will look to hold onto his title and a highly decorated field of women will challenge for top honors in the elite fields at Sunday's Bloomsday.
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