I am the worlds WORST blogger!

In an effort to climb a few positions from last place in the blog rankings I am writing this now and will try my best to have more regular post. Because I am such an infrequent blogger, I really doubt many, if any, will read this. So basically its just for. It looks like the last time I blogged was the beginning of March so this may end up being an extremely long post or I may decide to split it up into segments.

I first significant undertaking since then was my Spring Break trip to Washington DC with my little bro and sis. Dakota was invited to be part of the People to People Youth Leadership Conference/Tour (not exactly sure what the title was) and Christa and I just hung out. Big thanks to Mark F. for putting a roof over our heads and hooking us up with a tour of House Chamber. Christa and I managed to hit most of the key sites (Memorials/Monuments, Capitol, etc.) and then a few of the ones I have been wanting to see but had not been in yet (American Art/Port. Gallery, Kennedy Center, Ford's Theater, Natural History, Nat'l Archives, Hirshhorn, American Indian and I am sure I am missing some). To wrap up the trip I decided I would run the DC National Marathon. I didn't even know about the race until we were back there (saw signs at the Metro stops saying they would open two hours early on Saturday for the Marathoners), hit up the website on Thursday (they only had open spots for the Full, none for the half), went out to RFK on Friday to register, ran a sub 3:30 on Saturday before meeting back up with Christa and Dakota at Dulles to fly home. Not bad considering I hadn't ran for the two weeks prior and had never ran anything over 13.1. But I must admit I trained religiously for 16 weeks up to the Snake River Half (which was exactly two weeks prior to the DC National).

Ok so that is about all the further I am going to make it tonight. My body is exhausted. Finished my first ever Olympic Distance Tri today in Coeur d' Alene. Wanted to go sub 3 hours, fairly modest goal, but I figured it match my habit of not trying hard this summer. Went 2:45, under perfect conditions. I was pretty pumped.