Serial lactate measures also help assess response to therapy. The half-life of lactate is around 20 minutes, even in septic patients. If the lactate is persistently elevated, it's not because the body can't get rid of it, but because the body continues producing it, shifting to anaerobic metabolism.
That's because the Philadelphia Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon, which has been run in the city for 38 years, has a new date for 2015, landing on Oct. 31.
Barry Chin/Globe Staff The red seat marks the spot of the longest home run ever hit at Fenway Park â 502 feet by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946. By Alex Speier Globe Staff July 13, 2015. For a night, baseballâs defining distances will no longer be 60 feet, 6 inches or 90 feet. Instead, the attention will turn to the quest for more distant reaches during Mondayâs Home Run Derby, and the anticipation that maybe, just maybe, someone will launch a ball 500 feet. Itâs happened before, of course.