Our family is back from our trip to Washington DC and Virginia.   If you have not had a chance to visit our nation’s capitol it is a trip you should take.  Our family is not a “museum” family – we get bored easily and normally move through these things quickly but I have to say that the exhibits we saw at the American History, Natural Science and Space Museums were fascinating.  It truly gives you an appreciation of our country and how far we’ve come.  Warts and all, we live in a great place.

As some of you know, I made a goal to run for 30 days straight so even though I was on vacation I had work to do.  I found the tiny gym in the bottom of our hotel in DC and ran on the treadmill the two days we stayed there.  Once we hit Virginia I ventured out to the streets of Charlottesville to soak up the local color.  They do not have sidewalks on the main thoroughfare so instead of becoming roadkill, I ventured behind the hotel and found some safer streets.  It was hot with a capital HOT but I slogged it out and the last day I went back to the torture machine (aka:  treadmill).

Having this goal really forced me to be consistent while on vacation and even though my vacation runs were short, I felt great about being able to stick to my plan.  My next challenge will be our upcoming camping trip but I’ve committed to getting up early before the heat hits and meander along the roads through the campgrounds.

Now go run!

Keli 🙂