Arlington, VA – 29.OCT.2007

Sunday I spent the morning watching a friend and 30,000 other people run the Marine Corps Marathon in DC and VA. I got the chance to meet some interesting people as I walked a good bit of the course, including this kid handing out vaseline to runners (not the non-runners, vaseline cures many problems with chafing that comes from running 26.2 miles). I stopped to take a couple pictures of him and asked him if he was having fun. Beaming the entire time, he said he just loved being out there helping people, that such a small thing can make their day. He was not being paid to be out there; in fact many people lined the course to give food, water and aid to runners purely out of their pocket. Even though I wasn’t running, it made my day.