Put in 22 miles on the DREADmill today with a 1% incline.  Took me 3 hours and 7 minutes, or about an 8:30 minute per mile average.  Still not as fast as I would like…but it is acceptable.  Finished up with a 1000 meter swim.  It was supposed to be 1500, but I wasn’t getting enough oxygen and started blacking out!  Since I didn’t exactly feel like entrusting my life to the observational skills of the local lifeguard, I decided it was in my best interest to get out of the pool.

The down side of the long run today was that my right knee started hurting again.  It has been almost a year since I’ve had any pain in that knee, but in the last 4 miles of the run, a palpable ache set in.  Hopefully this doesn’t mean I’m going to have tendinitis again!