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Yes, very good advice from Tchuck and Figbash
One of the greatest shufflers of all time, Alberto Salazar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzljrUrwKE&feature=related
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." - Lucretius
...but you have no intention of following it. Hopefully other new runners who read your post will benefit from these suggestions. Tom
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Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
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Yeah, weird thread. OP asks advice but has it all figured out from some articles that don't apply to his fitness level. Why ask the question in the first place? I'd like to find an article or paper in support of burning lungs. Maybe then I'll switch my training methods.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 21, 2006) — In the lore of marathoners and extreme athletes, lactic acid is poison, a waste product that builds up in the muscles and leads to muscle fatigue, reduced performance and pain. Some 30 years of research at the University of California, Berkeley, however, tells a different story: Lactic acid can be your friend. Coaches and athletes don't realize it, says exercise physiologist George Brooks, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology, but endurance training teaches the body to efficiently use lactic acid as a source of fuel on par with the carbohydrates stored in muscle tissue and the sugar in blood. Efficient use of lactic acid, or lactate, not only prevents lactate build-up, but ekes out more energy [...] Experiments with dead frogs in the 1920s seemed to show that lactate build-up eventually causes muscles to stop working. But Brooks in the 1980s and '90s showed that in living, breathing animals, the lactate moves out of muscle cells into the blood and travels to various organs, including the liver, where it is burned with oxygen to make ATP. The heart even prefers lactate as a fuel, Brooks found. Brooks always suspected, however, that the muscle cell itself could reuse lactate, and in experiments over the past 10 years he found evidence that lactate is burned inside the mitochondria, an interconnected network of tubes, like a plumbing system, that reaches throughout the cell cytoplasm. In 1999, for example, he showed that endurance training reduces blood levels of lactate, even while cells continue to produce the same amount of lactate. This implied that, somehow, cells adapt during training to put out less waste product. He postulated an "intracellular lactate shuttle" that transports lactate from the cytoplasm, where lactate is produced, through the mitochondrial membrane into the interior of the mitochondria, where lactate is burned. In 2000, he showed that endurance training increased the number of lactate transporter molecules in mitochondria, evidently to speed uptake of lactate from the cytoplasm into the mitochondria for burning.
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I know a few runners who subscribed to the Hefty method early in their running...ask backroadrunner, kooky, and others how that worked for them.
Not gonna go there. Mr. Hefty is exhibiting some very troll like tendencies and me getting into a debate with you over the pros and cons of shuffling will only feed them. Tom
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I believe you may have answered your own question. Yes, the first lap was too fast and the Lactic Acid was rising so fast your body couldn't flush itself of this nasty stuff. Welcome to the world of anaerobic. Running fast is good once you build up a decent base of longer, slower miles. Doing speed work before your body is ready is a recipe for disaster (injury). Take your time and put the time in of running of 11:00 + minute miles and by doing this (along with the diet) you will also be running faster because of the additional weight lost.
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
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