When you PR'd at a 5k did you positive, even, or negative split?

It has been shown that even or slightly negative splits is the best way to race distances of 5000m and longer.

I positive splat my PR race.

Technically, I ran my 14:19 with even front and back half splits, but that is only because I finished with a good kick the last 200. Average pace was between 4:34 and 4:35, and my 1600s were 4:35, 4:34, 4:40, with a :30 for the last 200. My average pace on the back end was the same as on the front end, but my third mile was by far my slowest.

Even splits. Road 5k. Weather was absolutely perfect, fast course, so I just decided to go for it. Felt like I was going way too fast after the first mile but I hung on and ran even splits the rest of the race. Felt like death that last 800 meters though.

Hard to know without a "halfway" timing point in a 5K. Pretty sure my best 5K was even or slightly positive splits, but don't know for sure. 10K PR was a huge negative split...2nd half about 40 seconds faster on a flat course without much wind. Have always wondered what would have happened if I'd gone out 10-15 seconds faster. Not sure if my race time would have been quicker. Was rolling in that race late, and catching fools that were dying.

Positive, though it was XC so take that with a grain of salt

I ran 15:28 with 4:58/4:58/5:00/32 splits (1600s and a 200). so slightly negative as the 32 closing 200 would be about 5 seconds faster than the 200m splits I was hitting before

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I ran 15:28 with 4:58/4:58/5:00/32 splits (1600s and a 200). so slightly negative as the 32 closing 200 would be about 5 seconds faster than the 200m splits I was hitting before

in fact, all my PRs were slight negative splits, road or track.

since I started recording splits anyway...

4:38

5:01

4:48

:28

That's not positive, even or negative

I farking ran as hard as I could. That probably would a negative split, but I left it all out there. Ya'll think too much.

Positive

My best 5k was weird: my 2nd mile was my fastest (and first was slowest). Only time I know of that I have done that.

Positive split- however, I’ve been told the first mile is slightly short and net downhill

I had stagnated at 18:30 to 18:37 for three 5ks in a row over 5 weeks. Each time, I tried to negative split but could not get my body to speed up after the first mile.

I finally decided to go out fast and see what happens.

first mile was 5:30, second mile 6:01, third 6:03.

Takeaway is that my second and third mile was no slower than any of my previous race's.

Ran a 5k PR in last race of summer. Prior PR was 1636 so it was a big PR. Didnt really train much before that played basketball. This was also my first race not in basketball shoes or shorts.

First K was 306. Then 257. 3rd K was 257 as will. 4th K was 247 when I decided to break away and last K I really did sped up and it was 233. Total time was a PR of 14:20. My dad/coach thinks I can break 14 next summer I told him yeah let's go for it. Well see.

Negative splits. 5:29 1st mile. I didn't get a split the rest of the race, but I ran 16:53 (5:26 pace), so I ran the rest of the race at 5:24 pace average.

400s @ 75, 74, 74, 76, 75, 73, 75, 75, 75, 77, 76, 75, 34 (200)

i.e. 1600s @ 5:01, 4:59, 5:05 / 200 @ 0:34

So technically negative, but essentially positive but with a kick.

No idea. The splits in the track PR were called in Finnish. I didn't understand any of them. The road PR had no splits called anywhere.

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