Since March of last year, Brenton Sconce has bear-crawled 1 to 2 miles almost every day in preparation for the 50th Bloomsday.

On Monday around 9:47 a.m., Sconce’s hard work paid off as he crossed the finish line on Spokane’s Monroe Street Bridge just under 23 hours after undertaking his onerous odyssey.

As Sconce tended to his raw, blistered hands and tried not to pick at the dead skin peeling off his palms, he reflected on what drove him to bear-crawl for 7.46 miles.

“Everything has changed since being in recovery and finding my identity more solidly in Christ,” Sconce said.…