Long run – 5 miles

My god it was hot this afternoon!

I went out at about 5 o’clock and it was baking. It would have been very easy to just have a short run, but with my 10k race next week I knew I had to do at least 5 miles today.

Although it was so hot, I felt pretty good today, apart from a slight pain in my left knee on the inside. A couple of times earlier in the day it felt like the knee had lost its stability. It didn’t feel too good after about a mile, but about 10 minutes later the pain had gone. Pain is probably to strong a word to be honest. It was more like a dull ache.

I’ve been swimming a lot this weekend, so I think the knee pain could be down to that. Too much breaststroke!

I have actually been trying as hard as possible to learn the front crawl. I’ve always practically drowned when I try to breath doing the front crawl, as I don’t think it’s physically possible for me to not breath through my nose at all! So, I bought a nose clip. I may look like a synchronised swimmer, but at least now I can almost do the front crawl. Today I just about managed a length (25 metres).