Seedy Neighborhood

We went to downtown St. Louis today to check out the Riverfront Trail for our long run tomorrow. It's a great concept -- a greenway, in the city, a place to run and bike, safe trails. In reality, it goes past a bunch of factories and parts of it kind of smell like whatever Chico rolls around in. 

The parking looked kind of seedy, and there weren't a lot of people exercising, but there were a lot of random people who didn't look like they needed to be there. It might be different to bike it, since you could make a faster getaway, but I don't feel comfortable running 12 miles there by myself.

So we're starting in Maryville instead and running on the Schoolhouse and Goshen trails. I've run there before, and it's nice. Mostly flat, good trails, better place to leave your car, bathrooms -- all the important stuff! 

We walked to the Arch after we checked out about a mile of the trail, and then through Laclede's Landing. Here's the "Taste of St. Louis" menu one of the restaurants was advertising: 

St. Louis LOVES its gooey butter cake! We went to the farmers market in Soulard, too, and have the ingredients to make some good stuff this week (hopefully!) Tomorrow I'll be prepping this pork roast for the crock pot. Spices may vary, depending on what we have! and no onions (because I forgot to buy one!)