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Bloomsday 12K
May 4, 2025
Downtown Spokane
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MAY 17, 2025
Ta Ta Dash
Race to Erase Breast Cancer
5 K, 10 K,  KIDS 1/3MILE
Manito Park
Spokane, WA
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June 12, 2025
BRRC Pizza/Beer Run
Bloomsday Office

June 14, 2025
Fairfield Flag Flyin' 5K Fun Run
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July 4, 2025
Moran Prairie School
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July 10, 2025
Comstock Park
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September 7, 2025
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September 14, 2025
Flett Middle School
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BRRC Colbert Half Marathon & 4-Miler
September 27, 2025
Colbert Elementary School
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October 5, 2025
High Drive & Bernard

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October 12, 2025
Downtown Spokane

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October 19, 2025
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October 25, 2025
Mead HS

I Must Run Everywhere
I'm happy to introduce a new/old runner who is a prolific writer with a unique sense
of humor. Jim Johnson offered to republish a few of his articles from his blog, "I must Run Everywhere."
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https://imustruneverywhere. com/2013/05/05/no-cheese-for- 50000-bloomsday-runners/

No Cheese for 50,000 Bloomsday Runners

Posted on   May 5, 2013

2013 Bloomsday Start – Downtown Spokane, WA

This morning I ran in the Bloomsday Run in Spokane, the nation’s second largest run by number of timed finishers. I watched Olympic marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter win the very first run in 1977. In third place was Don Kardong, the Bloomsday race founder, who finished fourth in the 1976 Olympic marathon behind Shorter. He’s currently the Bloomsday race director.

Don Kardong leading Steve Prefontaine in a 1970 race. (Photo credit: Creative Commons)

The idea for Bloomsday was hatched by Don Kardong the same day as a long line of people were waiting at the Spokane YMCA for handouts of surplus cheese on a cold November morning in 1976, which the United States Department of Agriculture arranged frequently back then.

As the time neared for the cheese to be distributed, a YMCA official appeared and announced that there’d been an error in the newspaper. The cheese was not at the YMCA, but a few blocks away at the YWCA. The crowd broke into a run.

Mr. Kardong, enjoying a quiet, contemplative stroll, was surprised to find a sprinting mob coming at him. To avoid being trampled, he ran a short distance and turned into the first parking lot, which happened to be the YWCA.   Merely wanting to escape, he somehow ended up first in line, and was given two large bricks of cheese. A reporter covering the event wrote a front page story the next day vilifying Kardong for taking advantage of a program for the needy and as well, using his running ability to get to the front of the line. Kardong says, “I got a bum rap for that, but man, was that cheese good! I ate an entire brick as I walked home. I saved the other, and today it’s on display at the Bloomsday Hall of Fame.”

Inspired by the sprinting mob, Kardong started the Race for Surplus Cheese. Over time, a more dignified name was sought. Thus, Bloomsday.

This entry was posted in   Uncategorized   and tagged   Bloomsday,   Don Kardong,   government cheese,   Spokane running   by   Jim Johnson. Bookmark the   permalink. Edit

4 THOUGHTS ON “ NO CHEESE FOR 50,000 BLOOMSDAY RUNNERS ”

1. Jim   on   May 5, 2013 at 9:14 pm   said: Edit

   That is a very interesting version of the Bloomsday Run story. I don’t remember Don telling it quite that way. You must have been smoking some really old moldy cheese yourself to come up with that story!

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2. Jim Johnson   on   May 5, 2013 at 9:35 pm   said: Edit

   Jim, maybe you can help me out here. Whenever I try lighting up old, moldy cheese, I just can’t get it to burn. What do you do?

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