so this weekend in spokane is BLOOMSDAY yaaaay. no actually, bloomsday sucks. i've done it twice, and each time i walked it, saying, "next year i'm going to get in shape and run this motherfucker."

but then next year rolls around and i'm still smoking and i haven't been running at all, because, well, i don't like running.

anyway. bloomsday is a 12 kilometer (almost 7.5 miles) walk or run. it's held in spokane (very close to where i live, just across the border into washington state, maybe a 20-30 min drive). so this sunday i'm driving Danny and Tom over, and i guess we'll walk it.

there's many reasons to do bloomsday. there is the massive amounts of people, all walking together in the same direction so you're tripping all over each other. there's free water (with free paper cups!). there's the terrible high school rock bands playing on the sidelines. there's the joy of smoking cigarettes in a huge crowd that obviously doesn't like breathing cigarette smoke.

but most importantly, there's the free t-shirt. each year participants get a t-shirt for running (or walking, or even strolling) in the race. each year it's different, and the t-shirt design is kept secret until the day of the race, when you actually finish the race and pick up your shirt. actually, if you're a walker like me, you'll see the t-shirt about half-way through, on the smug bastards who have already finished the race and are walking against the tide, showing off their t-shirt.

in the two years i've participated in bloomsday, the t-shirts have been lame. one was maroon, and another was a light purple. not shirts i am proud to wear today. but i know they can make cool shirts, so i keep participating, hoping they'll go retro.

anyway. that's my plan this weekend. walk with a huge crowd of people. should be fun. at least i'll get to visit the garbage goat.

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