Dees States I Run

I'm not sure what causes this...may be a full moon or something in the air but it happened again this morning.  For whatever reason, it dawned on me that I should check to see if they had Saturday/Sunday 1/2's in the DC/DE area.  I knew that the National Marathon had a half and was sometime in March.  A quick check at Half Marathons.net and before I knew it I was signed up for the National 1/2 Marathon in DC on March 20th and the Caesar Rodney Half Marathon in Wilmington, DE on March 21st.  Well not quite signed up as registration hasn't opened yet for the DE event but hotel is booked so I'm practically there!
Airfare on Continental (to BWI) was right under $225, both races have host hotels with decent rates, I'll take the Metro into DC and then rent a car Saturday at BWI to drive to DE.  I'm heading up a day earlier than I normally would to sightsee in DC as I haven't been there since the late 80s.  Wow, time flies.
Going back to my October, CT/MA trip, this will be my 4th consecutive running trip where I'll be running 2 events on the same trip.  January will have me doing the 1/2 on Saturday and then the full on Sunday in DisneyWorld, this DC/DE trip in March followed my a late May Sunday/Monday race weekend in Cheyenne, Wyoming and Boulder, Colorado.
For some reason, I was dreading my hill run all day yesterday.  I did get out in what felt like the middle of the night at 7:00pm and got in a decent 4 mile run on Flintridge.  I really should start running at lunchtime weekdays now that it gets dark so early.
Earlier this fall, I ran consecutive "W" states merely coincidental and now I'll be running my first "D" state and DC and will be wrapping up the "D"s all in the same weekend.  I guess you run enough of these and patterns pop up everywhere.