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Dateline: DC

Made it to la casa del Boo last right in time to have a couple of Red Stripes and a bowl of her fabulous curried lentil soup. Restless sleep in the muggy Cathedral Heights neighborhood and a casual 0800 start to today's activities.

Dropped Kathy off at work and headed straight to Ted's Bulletin for the DC traditional breaking of fast. French Toast, scramblers and hash browns grilled to perfection with an endless pot of coffee got me started. The event expo and race headquarters has moved a mile or so this year from the Hinkley Hilton to the Mariott on Woodley. Traffic is a mess, made doubly tedious by the rains, last months quake and the flooding remnants of Irene. As if that wasn't enough, security is at 11, there are already noise of threats, and it seems that the cop-to-civilian ratio is 2-1.

On the race front, due to the flooding of the Potomac and sewage runoff, the swim leg has already been scrubbed, making the 2011 Nations Tri, the 2011 Nation's Du. Bike and run. I am at the expo in the lounge, credentialed and hungry again.

It appears at this point that we will also scrub the DC UTT shoot because the rain, the flooding, the security. The risk is simply too high. Plus I just found out that Dave broke his collar bone racing at St. Croix and is still mending. So stay tuned, all this may change after lunch. If it clears for an hour tomorrow morning at 0645, we'll go.

All for now from the Nation's Capitol. It's been wet, humid, slow and frustrating so far. Maybe that will change after some grub. ciao a presto

Pix: Yesterday's sun from the Seattle ferry terminal. Dave at the CompuTrainer Booth and his exhibitors across the aisle. Cool stuff