My understanding of the Cori Cycle is this (simplified):

- Blood glucose is converted into muscle glycogen
- The muscle glycogen is converted to ATP.
- The ATP is used for muscle contractions as fast glycolysis (oxygen deprived)
- Muscle lactate accumulates
- Muscle lactate is converted into blood lactate and trasported to the liver
- The liver converts the blood lactate to glycogen.
- The liver glycogen is converted to blood glucose
- repeat

I was under the impression that lacate was trasported to the muscle, which is obviously wrong. I leaned a while ago that creatine "inhibited" the uptake up lactate to the muscle, which would also be wrong. But since creatine does midigate the burning caused by lactate, it must play a role in the Cori Cycle. So what is that role? Does it help to transport the lactate out of the muscle at a quicker rate or is it something else?

Thanks for any info!