But in addition to experience running marathons, I like to see a lot of experience racing.  At all distances.  Flat out motherfucking racing.  When you start to see someone consistently banging out races at roughly their max capabilities--i.e. their race times start to predict each other really well up and down the spectrum using mcmillan and other bullshit and they almost never have a total meltdown and run significantly slower than you'd expect (barring weather calamity) that's when you know they've figured out racing and you can start to make some predictions. 

Damn, that's what I want -- to go faster at the longer distances like "using mcmillan and other bullshit" says. What's that stupid expression that's relevant here? nut up or shut up. But I forgot my damn goal race where I was gonna try. Poop.