Running
Spokane is home to the annual Lilac Bloomsday Run, which is a 7.46 miles (12.01 km) race for walkers, and competitive runners. The first Bloomsday was organized by Don Kardong in 1977 and drew a crowd of 1,200 people.
Spokane has a vibrant running culture. The city's location, abundance of parks and trails, close-knit community, high school sport competitiveness, and running tradition and culture make it one of the United States' top exporters of runners.
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Famous quotes containing the word running:
“The road became a channel running flocks
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“It was far in the sameness of the wood;
I was running with joy on the Demon’s trail,
Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A young person is a person with nothing to learn
One who already knows that ice does not chill and fire does not burn . . .
It knows it can spend six hours in the sun on its first
day at the beach without ending up a skinless beet,
And it knows it can walk barefoot through the barn
without running a nail in its feet. . . .
Meanwhile psychologists grow rich
Writing that the young are ones’ should not
undermine the self-confidence of which.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)