'I always ran well there': Former Bloomsday champ Jon Sinclair returns to celebrate 50th race
May 2—In his 15-year professional racing career, Bloomsday was Jon Sinclair's favorite race. Sinclair, who lives in Lafayette, Colorado, captured the men's elite race championship in 1983 and 1986. He was a runner-up in 1981 and 1982.
He knows a thing or two about how to run the 7. 46-mile course that begins in downtown on Riverside Avenue, meanders west and up toward Spokane Community College ...
May 2—In his 15-year professional racing career, Bloomsday was Jon Sinclair's favorite race. Sinclair, who lives in Lafayette, Colorado, captured the men's elite race championship in 1983 and 1986. He was a runner-up in 1981 and 1982.
He knows a thing or two about how to run the 7. 46-mile course that begins in downtown on Riverside Avenue, meanders west and up toward Spokane Community College near Doomsday Hill, down a 1-mile stretch on Broadway Avenue, before finishing on the north end of Monroe Street bridge. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Sinclair enjoyed hilly courses — especially considering that his top adventure these days is rock climbing.
Sinclair, who will turn 69 years old in September, doesn't run much these days. He'll go out for a 2- or 3-mile run every other day, but climbs rocks three to four times a week year round. "I don't have any cartilage underneath my kneecaps anymore," Sinclair said in a phone interview.
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