“We made it!” The marchers yelled as they crossed Eastern Avenue into the District at 12:30 p.m., soggy, tired and running behind schedule. But their brief moment of happiness was set aside as they kept to marching down Rhode Island Avenue, a few more miles to go until they would reach their welcoming committee.

The marchers were part of a small group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement that marched some 240 miles from New York to D.C., hoping to arrive in the city just as the congressional Super Committee on Deficit Reduction was scheduled to wrap up its work.

The committee called it quits early, though, leaving the marchers in the lurch as to what they would do next. Occupy DC had planned a day of events on Capitol Hill, but it appears that the group will now just set up an encampment at the Capitol reflecting pool, at least for the time being.

Some of the marchers had made it all the way from New York, while others joined the group in New Jersey, Baltimore and Laurel. Regardless, they all said they were tired; some limped along slowly, nursing blisters from yesterday’s 31-mile trek to College Park.

There wasn’t any chanting as they walked along Route 1, escorted by Prince George’s County Police. No one could blame them — spare a coffee break at Busboys and Poets in Hyattesville, the bleak stretches of rain-soaked road and sidewalk offered little in the way of encouragement.

The Washington Post’s Elisabeth Flock has been traveling with the group; go here to read her account from the march.