Lilac Bloomsday Run

Lilac Bloomsday Run
Bloomsday 2010 Finish Line, Monroe Street Bridge
Date	First Sunday in May
Location	Spokane, Washington
Event type	Road
Distance	7.46 miles (12.01 km)
Established	1977
Course records	Men: 33:51 (2008) Micah Kogo Women: 38:03 (2016) Cynthia Limo
Official site	Lilac Bloomsday Run

The Lilac Bloomsday Run, also known as Bloomsday, is an annual timed road race in Spokane, Washington, held on the first Sunday of every May since 1977. The course is 12 km (7.46 mi) long. The Lilac Bloomsday Run has had over 40,000 participants every year since 1986. Race participation peaked in 1996 with 61,298 registered participants. The number of finishers in 2015 was 43,206.Lineth Chepkurui set an unofficial 12 km world record in the 2010 women's race.

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

The course starts in Downtown Spokane and heads northwest along the far west end of town, passes by Mukogowa Ft. Wright Institute and Spokane Falls Community College before heading up "Doomsday Hill" and back downtown to the past the Spokane County Courthouse and ending at the Monroe Street Bridge. Every finisher of the race receives a Bloomsday T-shirt.

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