Feedback: Miles of memories line Bloomsday course
Miles of memories line the course
Leslie MacPherson
Participating in 1989, pushing a stroller with my 1-year-old daughter in it!
Andi Kinnie
Runnin’ with my mama, Deb Heggie Kinnie, almost every year! It’s our tradition, it’s always just us.
Bonnie Laura Javonne Gow
Crossing the finish line with my son, it’s the only time I got the opportunity to do it with him.
Maisy Fernandez Draper
Being completely hung over with a friend and watching people with strollers, elderly people and little kids whiz past us. In survival mode, we stopped and wolfed down some donuts offered by spectators on the side of the road. If not for that injection of sugar, we never would have made it up Doomsday Hill. But we proudly finished the race! Such a funny memory now that I’m older.
Louise Roberts Sterling
Talked hubby into going for first time. 15 minutes in, a gentleman in front of us had a heart attack. Hubby stopped to help and told me to go on. Never saw him again till the finish line. Gentleman made a full recovery.
Amy Morgan
My girls’ grandpa being pushed in a wheelchair by his grandson after he couldn’t do it anymore.
Rob Johnson
Not Doomsday Hill.
Karen Morley
I watched for years the runners and walkers knowing I could never finish that course being almost 400 pounds. I joined an online support group a few years later and after dropping almost 80 pounds from walking, I joined the race! Halfway up Doomsday Hill I turned to look back and saw the thousands behind me … behind me! I bawled almost all the way to the finish line and walking a 16-minute mile!
Michele Halsted
I actually handed out T-shirts the first year in the original convention center. I was 5 and I stood on top of a table while helping my dad.
Gwendolyn Cash James
Running/walking with my daughters. In matching shorts.
Joshua Payne
The summer of ’87, my mom and sister and I were in Germany, we were climbing a tower doing some sightseeing when on a narrow staircase we step into a room to let a person coming down go past. He was wearing a Bloomsday finisher shirt! You never know where you’ll see one.
Roxanne Bee
Finishing with my sister. Best memory ever.
Wilma Bob
My husband’s Aunt Lillian Nanpuya ran every year and made it a point to increase her finish time. She passed away last year; it will be a Remembrance Day for her attitude of endurance. She was 81.
Emily Noel Stubbs Waldman
I was 13 in ’83; I was in the paper coming up Doomsday Hill.
Editor’s Note: Save this link to your phone for a handy, mobile-friendly, mile-by-mile guide to the Bloomsday Run: www.spokesman.com/ guides/lilac-bloomsday- run-mile-mile/ .