Let's Talk Ice Baths

Me at about 9 miles. Apparently, my legs were still bending at this point!

On our 14 mile run this morning my body was talking to me...so naturally I knew pain awaited me at the end of the run.  Morgan, a teammate of mine, and I (yes, the Morgans were in action together) talked ice baths during our run a few times, and we were dead serious.  Now, remember its 20 degrees outside and I have ice crystals hanging from my hair (unfortunately my picture doesn't do justice) but we were still considering.

I am kind of thinking this is a weird picture to make public, but I am just going to go with it!

Here's me in my ice bath (I am fully clothed).  I don't know what actually motivated me to do it right when I got home (maybe pain of stairs?), but it was terrible.  First off, there was no ice. I prompted my dad to get the ice and meet me in at my bath (now remember I am fully clothed), but by the time he was there, no ice was needed.  I WAS FREEZING! Let alone I had just been outside for 3 hours! So my ice bath was an epic fail.  My knee (the primarily pain place) was only in the cold water for 3 minutes total, so now I am back to manually icing.  So much for my ice bath that was really just a cold bath.  There is no doubt I will try again; I'll probably fail again, though.