Design the 2011 Bloomsday finisher T-shirt! $1,000 for design selected August 12, 2010—The Lilac Bloomsday Association, in cooperation with The Inlander, is now accepting designs for the 2011 finisher T-shirt. Deadline for submitting designs is Monday, September 13, 2010, and the Lilac Bloomsday Association will pay $1,000 for the design selected. Details are on Bloomsday’s […]
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Springsteen got it right when he sang, “Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.” At the most basic level, young children need to run. If you doubt this, watch a four or five year old play with a hyper dog in a wide, open space. Their delight is instinctual and completely undeniable. Their
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The groundbreaking ceremony of the Centennial Trail in 1989 marked a new chapter for spokane recreation, and a new vision for most of the Spokane River. The freshly paved ribbon of asphalt, albeit incomplete, initiated a swell in jogging, Rollerblading and bike riding in the Spokane area. In the same year as the Tiananmen Square
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By Jon Snyder, Jon Jonckers, & Derrick Knowles Please take a moment while charging your GPS and IPhone to consider the hallowed tradition of the regional outdoor guidebook. It’s no secret that outdoor knowledge has exploded on the internet. Sites with user submitted data and comments are proliferating and enhancing what we know of the
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As if you didn’t know. Here’s more evidence comes from this press release from the Lilac Bloomsday Association: HIGH SCHOOL RUNNERS TO COMPETE IN NATIONAL MEETS IN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON December 4, 2008—This coming Saturday will be a big day for high school runners from the Spokane area, as the region’s top harriers head south
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After three decades of relying on volunteers to tediously track over 1,140,000 finishers, Bloomsday organizers have revamped the race’s time tracking system by outfitting each participant with a computer chip that will record precisely how long it takes them to get from start to finish. “This system is pretty widely used for marathons, but as
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