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So I'm sorry to be too Karen a spender .

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I'm sorry ,

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I'm the dining facility . Mhm

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contracting officer .

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Okay , my best friend and I have been

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running together for a lot of years and

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we've run eight marathons together .

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This will be the first year in a long

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time that we haven't been able to

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complete a marathon together . Um So

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her being in L . A . And me being here

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at Camp Taji , this allows us to still

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kind of run a marathon together

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um in civilian life . I worked for the

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National Park Service , I am a historic

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preservation specialist and I um manage

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historic preservation projects for the

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National Park Service . Oh

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but um some of the places that I've

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worked include uh the White House doing

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um restoration and preservation work of

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the exterior of the west wing . Um

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We've done a lot of chimney work and

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currently we are replacing a lot of the

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windows in the White House ,

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His friend that I also run with um she

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worked for the National Park Service

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also . Okay , okay ,

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I'm here at Camp Taji . The conditions

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for this marathon are extremely

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different from any marathon that I

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would have ever run . Um One good thing ,

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it's completely flat , however , we

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could experience temperatures to be

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quite hot and you never know when the

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dust mite kick up and the roads aren't

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exactly perfectly paved , so you really

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have to watch your footing the whole

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way . Yeah .

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Okay . Um in preparation for the

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marathon have been training with um

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some of the soldiers from the 1st and

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108 . Field Artillery division . Um

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We've spent a lot of early mornings

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saturday mornings preparing . We've

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done some 16 milers , some 18 milers .

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Um Last week we ran 20 miles . Um It's

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been a good experience and I've met a

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lot of different people and made some

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new friends . Yeah , no .