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Army 10 Miler in Washington DC on October 4, 2009.

My first 10 miler. This was a beautiful race that went by DC monuments and historic places starting and ending at the Pentagon.

The weather was perfect and there were a lot of Army displays including the Golden Knights parachute team and a low fly by of four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters right over the starting line. Awesome.

The race was nice and flat and the shorter distance was a welcome change. I will definitely run this race again next year.

Crappy photo of me as usual. I had to put the camera on the ground with the timer on and I still managed to be distracted right when it went off.

Baltimore Running Festival (Half Marathon) in Baltimore, MD on October 10, 2009.

Running in this event again marks the one year anniversary of my first foot race. This time I was accompanied by William who was running his first half marathon.

The race was as I remembered - well supported and exciting. We had some really great weather for running and everyone had a good time.

Before our race, Jamie and I had agreed that in running, the shorter your shorts the more serious you were about running. To humor her, I went out and bought some insanely small shorts the night before. They were very drafty and had built in underwear. I wont be wearing them again.