Has anyone noticed LSD helps them more in mid D events than the distance events?

LSD, It depends on what your training profile is like. Post college, I relied on tempo runs and hard days for race fitness. For years, I'd run 25 mile weeks, going hard 2-3 times per week.

Now that I'm an old f*ck, I've been doing marathons off of 60mpw. One tempo and one long run are the weekly hard days. But, the volume has given me my fastest 5k and 10k times in almost a decade. So for my training style, volume makes me notably faster over Mid-D races.

I like the LSD jokes. OK, so I'm a godd*mn hippy. I can tell you that 'shrooms are a better way to fly. Psychedelics are valuable if used properly, but are not helpful during serious training and racing seasons.
The experience of ego-death with mushrooms is extremely challenging but it brings profound benefits. BUT - as a teenager, I opened a spring season with a PR 1:58 half mile. The next week I took my first 'shroom trip and experienced ego death. It rearranged my mental furniture to the good, to say the least. However, the rest of the spring I struggled to break 2:00. Finally I got back to 1:59, then 1:58. My goal had been 1:56 that season. You catch my drift. I do not use psychedelics when I am in a training/racing cycle.

It was never "slow" distance for me, but I usually came into the track season with pretty good pop in my legs for the 1500 off of 50-60 mpw and very little work at mile race pace.  Most of my daily paces were moderate to hard but controlled @ distances of 5-10 miles.  Don't feel like I gained a whole lot by sharpening at the end of the season with 400s and below at or faster than race pace.  I don't know why, but longer and slower worked for me.     

Did you do any strides at mile pace or faster after your runs? Or any tempo workouts?

P.O.T (plenty of tempo) combined with Long Slow Distance Is a good balance.

Don't middle distance runners lack slow twitch muscles. Working on your weakness is much more productive than working on your strength. I think I am all slow twitch. Running more miles rarely helped me. Fast and even faster short stuff is what gets me faster. But I am old and lazy now. It hurts too much to do short track stuff so I just do easy 60 to 70 minute runs. I can actually feel I am getting nothing out of those runs but do enjoy doing them.

In college I did a five mile run on acid and then while stretching on the track I decided to run a mile and barely squeezed under 5. It’s much easier/better to run on than weed and most drugs except maybe amphetamines

@snowdays buoy why u talkin like u hella smart we all been know that shi don’t talk wit yo nerd lookin self out here 😂😂

You say that like there aren’t thousands of 4:50-5:10 highschoolers that run all their “easy” runs at 6:30 pace

I don’t give a flying fuq bout no slow azz mfs jus get quick it ain’t no thang g