Continueing Education....or something like that

I'm chilling alone on a Friday night here in Portland. I woke up at 3:00 this morning to catch a flight out of Boise to Portland. I'm attending a conference on low back pain starting tomorrow. I'll fly home late Sunday night. The flight early this morning was the cheapest I could find, and it worked great because it gave me a day to play a little bit. I was very excited to head back up the gorge and look around a little more than we were able to do at the end of December. I ended up running one of the most scenic stretch of trail I've ever seen, all while Lori was putting in a good day at work back at home. I highly recommend the Eagle Creek Trail if any of you ever have a chance. It was snowing last time we were in the gorge, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when it snowed today for several hours.

Multnomah Falls, pretty impressive and you don't even have to hike to it.

It was so green, I felt like I was running through the jungle.

This was looking down from one of the footbridges. The picture doesn't do the place justice, the bridge is actually about 100 feet above the river and the canyon is very narrow right there. I had to lean out over the bridge a bit in order to capture the amazing shot you see above; that's right, I'm Mr. Dangerman.

This is Tunnel Falls, my turnaround point. I'm guessing the name comes from the tunnel you can go through behind the falls.
After the run, I came back to Portland and drove around for over an hour trying to find my hotel. The streets around here are a mess. Anyway, I'm planning on heading out to the coast and I'll have to post more pictures later. I love the conineuing education thing; if only all my education could have had these kind of perks.

updates

So I hear that we are supposed to keep up on these blog pages. Given that Jon has done all the blogs (as you have read these..., see what I live with....), I figure it is my turn to learn how to do this crazy thing. Since we have last written we have gone snow shoeing and ran some races.




When we got our dog many of our friends (Sarah!) said we would not be able to take him with us to do the outdoor things we like. Although our dog is 5lbs dripping wet he can still run with me up to 4 miles (and still beat me), go hiking/camping, and now we know he can snowshoe.



We just recently spent our Easter weekend running ourselves into the ground. I, with the encouragement of my crazy husband, ran my first trail race, a 25K run. My goal was not to be last and overall I was not; however, in my age group I was 6th out of 7, wahoo (that was a close one). Now a 25K (15 miles) sounds like alot (and IT WAS!!!) I cannot feel too bad for myself jon ran 50 miles he left 3 hours before me and came in 2 1/2 after me. All in all, it was a fun race, beautiful scenery, and we were not charged by the buffalo. The best part of the race is watching jon try to run, let alone walk, the day after.
Hope all is going well with everyone else.