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- My name is Melanie Butler, from Laurel, Maryland.

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Yeah, I started running with a group of people

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in Laurel, Maryland, in 2013,

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just to get up, get moving, look at fitness a different way,

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and there's a whole lot of us

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that have been running since then.

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We come out and support our first time marathon runners

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for the Marine Corps Marathon.

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I mean, to this area, I think it's important,

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when you look at the military

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and just what's going on in DC,

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but I think it's great to support everybody

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that's out here running.

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It's such a huge "People's Marathon" as they say.

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So it's something that everybody kind of aspires to

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in the area.

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So I think that if we have a group of people that want

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to put in the time to run 26.2 miles, we should be out

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here to cheer them on.

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Just the overall cheering, but the reaction from the runners

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that we get from cheering them on.

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I just find it to be exciting.

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It's just fun.

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I mean to wake up really early in the morning.

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You don't feel like, oh, I've got to get up.

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You're like, yeah, I'm going out to cheer.