Have you ever had such a huge POSITIVE split that you PRed anyway?

I know it was an 800m. But if that was a marathon, that would be so incredible and so painful all at once

Marathon PR in Chicago - went out 1:11 for first half and second half was 1:14.

I've done the old marathon 1:10, 1:17 split before.

5000m PR. 9:08 first 3200, finished in 14:45.

1:57 800 Junior year of high school. 53-64. Death march.

In one of the most exciting and painful high school races I've seen in my entire life, 2 boys 4 x 800 teams handed off side-by-side fighting for the lead. Both anchors split 1:54. The one who carried his team to the win split 57-57. The one who got out-leaned at the line split 50-64.

54-61 for a 1:55 800 PR once. Almost pure hate.

We had a guy on a rival team do something close in HS. He had a 1:58 800m and 3:59 1500m PR. At the district meet in the 1500m his senior year he goes through 400 in 60, and people start getting excited and thinking they'll see something special. He hits 800m at 2:00, another 60 second lap. People are getting excited. He goes through 1200m in 3:00 and people are going nuts. And he almost immediately blows up after hitting 1200m. He struggled so bad he ran the last 300m in 69 to finish in 4:09. He still won the race by 2 seconds but he looked like death afterwards. Didn't PR though, but it was ballsy.

ran a 400 PR freshman year of high school with 25/33

I think the 400 is well suited to this cause a lot of distance runners tend to start too slow in it

I have also done 1:10/1:17! technically not a PR, but only 20 seconds slower than the other time I ran my 2:27 PR (which was a much more reasonable 1:13/1:14)

still pissed I didn't go 1:12-3 for the second/whacky one...without doubt I would have a PR that is 1-2 minutes faster to this day

My 10k PR is still from a 15:16/16:10 split. My 5k PR at the time was 15:17.

Freshman year of hs I went out in 59 and finish in 2:17

My teammate broke my school record in the 10K by going 14:59/15:38 for 30:37. His official 5K PR is still 15:04. I ran a nice even split 30:41 earlier that year haha

My 5km PR, my 10km PR and my half PR were all made in the same, hugely positive splited race. Even the second 5km was a lot slower than the first but that was me realizing I started way too fast for my ability. I am a hobby jogger though and i was racing only once a year on the road by then (did not race since covid).

Yep, went out in 1:08:10 in the first half of a marathon and ran 2:25:30 or so which was my pr at the time. I actually held the pace through 23 miles and then ate it. I could hardly walk it in.

I ran a 4:57 mile (no splits that I can remember) in my first high school track race, which was on a semi-nice synthetic track. That stayed my PR with the next race or two over 5:00 on my high school's 440y dirt track. Then I went out in 66 on the home dirt track and held on for a 4:48, a 9 second PR. PRs come easy as a beginner.

If Athing Mu had finished the Millrose Mile it likely would have been.

Yup, that particular pacing technique definitely lends itself to being outkicked haha

Once ran 3.45pb for 1500m off a first 800m in 1.55

there is a kid in our league that is a 50/51 4x4 leg and goes out in his 800 at 52 every time. had been going 52/65 for a few weeks, and lowered it to 52/63 this week. I guess it's what his coach wants him to do.