Rode the Little Blue Trace trail - a trail I have run several times the the past but not in the last three years -and was pleasantly surprised to find they'd done quite a bit of work on it. It is now a full 11 miles long, running from the 39th St. area in Independence, north to E. Blue Mills Road, north of Highway 24.
The trail is 100 percent chat and fine gravel, and today it was very dusty. The route is through a lot of wooded areas, so even though we had a full-sun day, we enjoyed quite a bit of shade much of the way. Today the temperature was cool and the humidity low. There was a bit of a wind out of the south, which worked against us all the way back. I'm not complaining, though, because while our speed was slow (11.2 mph average) we still worked pretty hard and ended up with a nice workout.
Final stats were 24 miles in 2:10:20.