We had a *GREAT* work-out today. Just awesome, I was very impressed with everyone's fitness and discipline. Lactate threshold workouts are very important, especially this early in the season. The short story is that these type of workouts teach the body to get rid of the lactate acid that causes the "burn" we all feel in our races. The less we feel the "burn", the faster we can go; and the faster we can go, the lower our times can be. This is true for running a 50 second 400 all they way up to running an eleven minute two mile. Now, you can conquer the lactic acid burn mentally, but systematically training to push it away works as well. So these workouts are very important, and they must be run at precise speeds. All of you did that today, which pleased me to no end. Congratulations!!
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P.S. For all you chemistry geeks, the image above is what lactic acid looks like :)
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