Bloomsday 2009

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  toadman on May 04 at 9:47 a.m.

  “How did you spend Bloomsday morning?”

  Was this Bloomsday weekend? Ooops.

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  JeanieSpokane on May 04 at 10:21 a.m.

  I slept in, woke up at the starting time. In the past, I have volunteered and passed out t-shirts. It’s great fun. All the secrecy of the latest shirt carries over right until the starting gun. THEN we unload the boxes of t-shirts. They stack about half a foot taller than me. I was at the front table and could hear a voice on the other side, just as the first racers were coming through - it was the first wheelchair racer. I never saw his face, just jumped up and tossed a shirt over to the other side of the table to which he yelled “Got it!” and rolled away. It took about ten minutes of tossing shirts until I was actually able to see the receivers.

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  Cindy_H on May 04 at 10:28 a.m.

  I stayed home to care for our new baby, while the rest of the gang ran.
  It was nine-year-old Sam’s first Bloomsday. He came home, staggered to the sofa and said, “I feel like my wnole body is broken!”

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  LukeB on May 04 at 10:31 a.m.

  I went for a 20 mile run. Seriously.

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  poolman on May 04 at 10:56 a.m.

  6:45 – The boy migrates from his bed to mom and dad’s bed and starts singing his weekend song - Da Da Da Da Da Da - in the tune of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (that’s what I hear anyway ). Mom is a little irritated that she doesn’t have a special weekend song.
  6:50- I sneak out to make coffee and get an orange juice sippy and a small box of coco puffs. This might buy a few more minutes of sleep. No - the song continues, with a few nice little riffs mixed in this time. Loves the coco puffs.
  7:10 - I find Sesame street on TV but it’s the Hispanic version. Cookie monster sounds pretty funny in Spanish.
  7:30 – Flip it to KHQ -I see Dan Kleckner, Stephanie Vigil, and Sunshine Shelly on the course reminiscing about Bloomsdays gone by. Sweet! Can’t wait to watch the race.
  8:30 - Bacon, fried potatoes, eggs, toast - not exactly the breakfast of champions for a former “elite” runner.
  9:05 - start to wonder why there is no Bloomsday coverage on TV? This is how I enjoy the race - by watching others in misery. Dam it KHQ – what’s wrong, can’t afford to fuel up the camera truck?
  10:00 - yard work/golf, yard work/golf? Compromise – Watch golf on TV for a while then do a bit of yard work.
  12:00 Nap

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  KeithErickson on May 04 at 11:20 a.m.

  I’m on the same page as LukeB. Went for a 22-mile training run. Coeur d’Alene Marathon is less than three weeks away!

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  Bent on May 04 at 1:24 p.m.

  Went bicycle riding with my wife. We just got new bikes, what a blast. I almost forgot how much fun it is to ride a bike.

  I’ve been taking my bike to work and riding at lunch, and twice last week I put it on the bus, took the bus to Liberty lake and rode my bike home to Post Falls … If the weather holds I am going to do it again today…

  Next week is Bike to Work Spokane, and we have a corporate team so I’ll try riding both ways that week.

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  Stickman on May 04 at 7:50 p.m.

  Went for a walk around Tubbs, as I am wont to do on a daily basis, if I can. Very peaceful, and the flowers are glorious.

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