New Record Set at the Army Ten-Miler

Army, Dec 2004

Capt. Dan Browne of the Oregon Army National Guard broke the finishing tape at this year's 20th annual Army Ten-Miler with a record-setting time of 47 minutes and 29 seconds.

Browne, a three-time winner and an Olympic long-distance runner, set a pace of 4:45 per mile to beat the record he set in 1997.

Casey Smith of Arlington, Va., won for the women's division with a finishing time of 57:26. She previously won in 2002. Army teams also burned up the pavement, with the Fort Carson Men's A Team winning the overall and active military men's divisions while the Fort Bragg Women won the women's division. Among the participants was a band of determined soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center who lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq. The "Missing (Parts) in Action Team-Some Assembly Required," could boast by the end of the race that all of its runners crossed the finish line.

The Army Ten-Miler, the largest race of its kind in the United States, is staged by the U.S. Army Military District of Washington with the Association of the U.S. Army and BearingPoint as co-presenting sponsors.

Results for the race are available at www.armytenmiler.com, which will also be the registration site for next year's Army Ten-Miler. It will be held on October 2, 2005.