Day 98 Greenville - Vandalia 20.9 miles

Chilly!

 

46 degrees in the morning.

 

Soon it'll be 30's.

But when the sun came up, it got warm enough.


Google Map cheated me again!

When I reached Vandalia, today's goal, there was no motel where it should have been!


I wonder why...

I tried seeing the Google Map Street View.

There was no motel, but instead there was someone's house out there.


Mysterious!


Anyway I am OK.

Finished safely today too.

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Day 97 Highland - Greenville 19 miles

Short day.

Finished before noon.

Sunny but cool.

Wind was a bit chilly, which means witer is drawing near.

Find towns every 12-20 miles.

Have no difficulty finding a place to get food and water.

I don't have to carry so much food and water.

Next weekend I'll be in Indiana.

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Day 96 Downtown St. Louis - Highland (Illinois) 34.6 miles

Cross the Mckinley Bridge on the Mississippi River and finally I enterd  the state of Illinois!

I don't like big cities and busy roads.

So I felt ease when I hit into Woodland Trail which started at Horseshoe Lake.

The trail ended iin Troy and I took HWY 162 and US 40 to get to Highland.

Long day but tail wind pushed me a lot.

Non stop run for 8 days in a row.

I can run much longer and farther.

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Day 95 St.Louis (Westport) - Downtown St.Louis 20.2 miles

Had some rain early in the morning but it had stopped just before I started.

Mostly cloudy except some scattered rain in the late morning.

The trouble is that I got lost in downtown area because big construction was going on in the central part of the city.

According to De tour sign, I kept going avoiding the construction part.

But after all I came back to where I had started.

I arrived at the motel but ran 3.5 miles more than I had expected.

Tomorrow I'll cross the Mississippi and enter the state of Illinois.

 


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Day 94 Lake St.Louis - St. Louis(Westport) 25 miles

Cloudy but warm day.

Got intoSt. Louis area.

According to Google Map's 34 instructions, I finally managed to reach today's goal.

It was nice to run along the bike path. Heritage Trail.

Enjoyed nice view of Cleve Couer Lake.

Right shin didn't annoy me so much today.

Hope it will be OK.

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Day93 Warrenton - Lake St. Louis 21.6 miles

Kind of boring day.

The scenery is almost the same, running along the Interstate.

It's the Great Plain, isn't it?

The closer I get to St. Louis, the bigger the size of town becomes.

Almost every town has McDonald's and conveniencestores.

Some of them has Walmart.


I remember running in the desert area.

Once I found McDonald's, next one is 3 or 4 days later or longer.

It was almost impossible to find Walmart in the desert.

All I found was a small grocery store.

It's not 24 hours open.


Traveling is a succession of discovery.

I'm studying a lot.

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Day 92 New Florence - Warrenton 20 miles

Short day.

Because of my bad shinsplint, I chenged the schedule, quitting my run on the way Warrenton.

I wish I could have run till Wentzville.

Warrenton is a kind of big town.

The motel is also good, cheap (about $35) with microwave and fridge.

But I can't access the Internet, out of network in my room.

So I access the Internet, sitting in front of the office, with a mosquito bothering me...

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