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Today I ran my first half marathon. I have been running with Karen and Matthew and went on all the long runs with them so they convinced me to run it. It was actually a lot of fun and we did well. Unfortunately I lost my camera at the race :'(, so I'll be relying on others for pictures for the next few weeks or so. Otherwise, the race was great. Here is a picture of Karen, Matthew, my coworker Mike, and I after the race. We didn't get a pre-race photo because we were running late.
The three of us stayed together for the race until the last mile where they broke off but I stayed right behind Karen and smashed her personal record (by 4 minutes!) with her which was the goal. So now I cannot run a half-marathon in anything more than 2:02:40 now. ;) I don't think that is too bad considering I never ran more than 6 miles at a time before July.. and those 6 miles seemed brutal when I did them.There was a DELICIOUS bbq after the race but we were all FREEZING cold. I saw a ton of people I knew.. some of them I'm not sure where from but this town is getting smaller everyday. 
Mmmm cake!
Alaska doesn't seem too kind to your electronic gadgets! Sorry you lost your camera but way to go with the ½ marathon!
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