Bloomsday breakthrough: First local elite champ Kim Jones recalls her victory nearly 30 years ago
May 2—In a way, Kim Jones was resistant to her first Lilac Bloomsday race. She registered for Spokane's annual rite of spring and then showed up to the start line, ready to run, start to finish, with absolutely no training base. Not even a jog around the block.
By the end of the 7. 46-mile race, Jones' body was screaming at her. "It really hurt in the end," Jones recalled in a phone interview ...
May 2—In a way, Kim Jones was resistant to her first Lilac Bloomsday race. She registered for Spokane's annual rite of spring and then showed up to the start line, ready to run, start to finish, with absolutely no training base. Not even a jog around the block.
By the end of the 7. 46-mile race, Jones' body was screaming at her. "It really hurt in the end," Jones recalled in a phone interview from her home in Lafayette, Colorado.
"I was in a lot of pain and I paid the price. " A year earlier in 1981, Jones became acquainted with Bloomsday when she watched the elite races on television. She decided that day she was going to do Bloomsday the following year.
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