Bloomsday Race

Have you ever ran 7.5 miles along with over 50,000 other people running it with you?

My boyfriend introduced me to the Bloomsday Race in Spokane WA 2 years ago, he has been running this race since he was 5 years old. To date he has ran the race 23 times! I have personally only ran it twice but it has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. The race starts at 8am and you stand for about an hour while over 50,000 other people file in next to you. You see some crazy things while you wait for the race to begin. People will run in costumes, and people of all ages run thing race! I remember one year i saw 3 men running in grass skirts and coconut bras, I saw a woman run in a Raggedy Ann costume, I saw a guy running in a huge bannana suit, I even saw a guy running in a speedo, bare foot!
Right before the race starts the excitment in the air and the overall mood is positive. Everone there is so nice and it was just an amazing thing to be standing next to 50,000 other people from all around the globe with different backgrounds and ethnicities all standing side by side doing this all together...to me it was amazing. The course is 7.5 miles long and you run past a lot of houses in a part of the race and the edges of the entire race are lined with people all cheering you on. I mean these people were really cheering for you! I saw some amazing people running the race too, one girl had a shirt on that said " I use to weight over 250lbs". I saw a lot of shirts with sayings like "This ones for you mom/dad". It was amzing to see the reasons on why so many people come to this race every year. It gives me hope that maybe one day we will all live in a world free of judgment, be it the color of your skin, religion, race, or sexualality. I am proud that I can say I have ran this race and I plan on running it every year till the day I die!