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On your mark, get set . . .

Published May 6, 2007

Running might be the last thing on some folks' minds the morning after Cinco de Mayo.

But for an estimated 50,000 runners, walkers, joggers and wheelchair users, today marks a different holiday – the 31st edition of the annual Lilac Bloomsday Run.

Teal portable toilets dotted the 7.46-mile course Saturday in preparation for the horde of participants who will pound the pavement.

This morning, out-of-town runners have from 6:30 to 8:30 to pick up numbers at the Spokane Convention Center.

Runners divided into eight color groups will depart from West Riverside Avenue downtown, with elite wheelchairs leaving at 8:40 a.m., elite runners starting at 9 a.m. and the final group departing about 10:10 a.m. The course closes at 1 p.m.

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