#:DATE 2021.05.12
#:WEATHER nice
#:DISTANCE ~6 miles
#:PACE easy
I would say that I spent about two thirds of the time on the trails
because it is around two miles, out-and-back, to where the trails
start and I spent the rest of the time on the trails. These
particular trails are not very technical or anything (though there are
some like that in southern Indiana). Part of it is just a fine
chipped gravel foot-path by the canal, but this surface is more
challenging than it would seem: the gravel is fine enough that when
conditions are dry, you lose just enough traction that you don't
perceive yourself to be working harder but at the same time you seem
to be either working harder or going slower. But when it's damp, the
gravel just sticks to its bed of clay, so it feels almost like running
on a track.
