best negative splits you've ever run

tactical 15, opened in 212, closed in 144 for a 356 but still got 5th out of 15 lol

4:42 = 2:30/2:12

16:21 5:17 first mile, 5:23 second mile, ended in 16:21.

Indoor mile; opened in 2:12, closed in 1:58

My HS 800m PR. I was right about in 2:00 800m shape and most of the time going out in 58-60 with most races ending up 2:03 or 2:04. This race was in an allcomers and a 3:54 miler was there and had already run 2:53 for 1200m earlier in the meet. I was expecting a fast pace in the 800m so I went out in last. Felt surprisingly good at 400 only a second back from the 3:54 guy thinking I was going to bust a huge one until I heard the split...62.4 (Ugggh!). The 3:54 dude dropped a 54 and was gone, and I started pushing on the backstretch moving past people and on the homestretch I found another gear and ran down a couple people to finish 3rd in 2:02.5 (last lap was 60.1).

It probably sounds cheesy to any real 800 guy, but for me it was a near miracle to close an 800 in 60. After that, I was sure that I would have to run 56, 63 to break 2:00 (boy was I stupid!). I never ran another outdoor 800m after that..too bad because I'd probably have a great story for an epic "tank".

No idiot. You shut up idiot. You are an idiot.

best negative split i ever run was -14

I was a cautious distance runner--always started slow, probably too slow a lot of times--so though I had a lot of negative splits, they don't mean much. Curiously enough, my best negative split came in another 50k walk. (I know you asked for the "best you've RUN," but any RWer who ever saw me walk would say I was running the whole way--hell, if I could have straightened my legs I might still have been a runner. The judges just let me stay in races through pity, when they realized I'd never beat anyone.)

For this particular 50k, my RW form was still terrible, but I had put in some 100-mile weeks (just getting to and from my various jobs and classes), and for the level of my technique I was probably in my best shape ever. When the race started I went as fast as I could, and basically stayed with that the whole way. A friend later found out that I had a four-second negative split for the second 25k, vis-a-vis the first. I told him it was because I had a moving start...

1600 - first 1200 in 3:34, last lap in 62. Not all that impressive on its own as I could probably, at my best, run closer to 56-57 after that kind of 1200, but that was my PR at the time. I tried running even splits in my next few races, but never broke 4:36 in HS.

1qt54w wrote:I was a cautious distance runner--always started slow, probably too slow a lot of times--

But I found that it's always a lot more fun then dying at the end. I'm old enough that I don't want to do that anymore. I used to count the no. I passed from the 1 mile point to the finish, no matter the distance. Just a self motivation procedure that kept the race interesting.

1600: 2:17 -> 2:05 with 60 sec last lap for 4:22

Did a 5k over Xmas break once in the Florida Keys. There were six of us at the mile mark in 5:55 to 6:05*, but at the finish there were only five of us. The other one ran 16:30 or so off a 5:55 opening mile. Turns out he was second or third at the IC4A mile a few months later.

*Yes, I know I'm old, fat and slow.

conference 1500m this year went 72, 70, 61 (with a 28s 2nd 200), 40 = 4:04 for me. the winner went 72, 70, 59, 39. the last 100m was the most painful of my life..

For some reason I was in a lot of slow races in my career. Of course, I was somewhat to blame for this; my 800 tactics were Vessey-esque and my refusal to lead a mile race would have left Letsrunners howling were I good enough to garner their attention. My bests:

800: High school Districts, out in 61 flat, back in 56 for a 1:57.2 for close 3rd to two 1:53 guys. PR at the time was set the week before at 1:57.0

1500: College Conference meet, out in 2:12, home in 1:41 for a 3:54.0 FTW. PR was 3:51

5:56 then 5:04 in the first two miles of a cross country race. The idea was to run as slow as possible early, and then see if I could catch the leaders by the end of the second mile.

David Rudisha 3th 800 (final) at the national championships in Nairobi, Kenya: 56-51 makes 147 (after 146 and 146 in heats and semi's) That's a negative split!

Personaly I don't believe in negative splits, feels like you could have done better.

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1600: 2:17 -> 2:05 with 60 sec last lap for 4:22

weird, that's exactly what i was going to post. down to the exact second.

3000

Went out in about 7th or 8th for the first 1600 (4:27), then started to move up, and blasted the last 800 (2:03) for a 14 second PR (8:10) and the win.

I had a championship 1500 that went 67-72 then 45 for the next 300 and then 53 for the win.

also in HS ran a 1600 closed in 56 after going something like 64, 64, 62.