Komen Global Race for the Cure and D.C tourists

Will and I had a great time in Washington, D.C. this weekend. We try to visit our nation's capital once a year. Of course, if a race is involved, I am very happy about that! After a long ride and a lot of rain, we finally arrived on Friday and checked in at our hotel. The race was Saturday morning so we left bright and early for my warmup time. The starting line was near the Washington monument and the race went around the city and ended at the National Mall. I was trying to place in the top 5 for my age group and post a better time than last year. I ended up placing 7th out of some 340 women aged 40-44 but my time was better by almost a minute. Yay! Now time for sightseeing...

After breakfast and a change of clothes off we go to the National Art Gallery. While I don't particularly like art museums, my history buff hubby fills in the details about these pieces of art and who these people were, so it wasn't too bad. It was pretty interesting actually. We ate at Ebbitt's Grill for dinner and walked around the monuments afterwards. Our visit to view the White House was a little different this year. Usually, there is the one lady that has been demonstrating since 1981 but this year there was a large group and 2 other single men demonstrating for different causes. What those causes were, I couldn't tell you. I read their signs but couldn't figure it out.

I always look forward to my early Sunday run around the National Mall but this year, I just had to add in a detour to the White House to see if all the demonstrators were still there. Only the one lady and about 4-6 policeman were around. Bummer...It was a great run around the monuments and then we went to the new Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. It was awesome and if you go to D.C.  you need to stop by. I will post some pics of it below.

Home is a great place to be. We have been gone the last 3 weekends and I am looking forward to being here for a while-at least a week or two anyway.

This week is a week of endings and beginnings. It is the last week of Fit-tastic at Capital RunWalk and the beginning of my own run group in Garner with NEXT STEP Performance Training. I will blog about my run group after Thursday, which is our first training session. I am proud of the Fit-tastic group and excited to see how they do in the 5K on Saturday.

Happy Running!!