I did this yesterday on the treadmill because I wanted two days off, no time for a long run today due to the figure skating championships all day...plus I wanted to try a low heart rate fat burning...I even walked about a mile of it at 5% elevation. Very slow. And at least as hard as faster for me, at least in some ways. I then took the coldest ice bath I have ever taken. Usually I feel like screaming for about the first minute, this time it didn't even get close to tolerable until 9 minutes had passed and I was still shivering pretty hard 20 minutes after. I turned on the electric blanket and crawled in. My legs feel fine this morning, not at all like I did a long run last night.
If my blood pressure heads up tonight I will get in 3 more miles this evening at 8:46 pace for the middle 2.5. Or something. I feel totally injury free!
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