What is your biggest positive split?

SweetSwede wrote:

I have only run one marathon, 1:11 1:29 splits. Got crazy cramps after 30k and walked the last 2k. What is your biggest positive split?

In my PR at 800m of 1:58:7 I ran first 400m at 54 sec! .....so very stiff legs last 200m. :)

My first marathon - 1:30, 1:51. I cried. I walked.

Same course, 8 years later - 1:13:00, 1:12:17.

Live and learn.

1:13 1:29 marathon for a 242 over three years ago, missed PR by 12 minutes, haven't run one since.....

Mini wrote:

Marathon...first half 1:20, second 1:48...tried to run this with one slice of bread and three small gels...total energy depletion...rookie mistake...

that's rough-did a 1:20 then 1:31 in my 1st 'thon years ago and it felt like I was crawling the last 2 miles...

5k XC in high school, first mile in 4:58, total time 17:22.

Yeah, that's a mile at 4:58 pace and 2.1 at 5:54 pace. Guess whether the 2.1 was evenly paced or not.

Learned something that day.

wsaffsa wrote:

5k XC in high school, first mile in 4:58, total time 17:22.

Yeah, that's a mile at 4:58 pace and 2.1 at 5:54 pace. Guess whether the 2.1 was evenly paced or not.

Learned something that day.

Okay, I failed to remember that accurately. Mile was accurate, but total time was 17:16. So the last 2.1 was at 5:51 pace. Completely acceptable, right?

First track race ever

9th grade 800m

I went 57 then finished in 2:13. That was a 400 pr too

2:02-2:27.

4:29, PR.

Also went out in 4:45 finished in 16:15 in xc

f;ljkdf;sakljdfsaklj; wrote:

2:02-2:27.

4:29, PR.

I'm impressed that you could hold on and run a respectable time after that start, when I ran a 4'15 1500m my 800m pb was 2'04, I wouldn't have been able to run a 2'30 after that.

Every time I show up to my local 5k, there's a guy who runs the first km in sub-4 mins before dying on the very same (small) hill before eventually limping home in ~23 mins every...single....week.

I notice because I have the opposite problem - I always neg split to the point where I leave seconds out there by not starting out fast enough.

Hggfyuj wrote:

3200 with

5:03 first 1600

5:33 last 1600

I did almost the same for 5k back when I was trying to break 16.

4:50

5:10

5:40(6:20 for 1.1)

The last mile was brutal, it was like walking through mud.

4xmile relay at state relays in high school.

I got the baton in like 3rd for the 2nd leg. I was by far the slowest guy on the team. I usually raced the 2 mile on the track, rarely in the mile. I got the baton and ran a 65 second first lap (gas for me). In that time, the guy in 4th got the baton, passed me, and dropped me, despite me running a 65. I went on to run a 4:50, best mile I ever ran. (also last mile I ever ran competitively) The difference between me and that guy is below:

Me: 10:26 (2 mile) and 17:14 (5k)

Him: 1:55 (800m) and 4:19 (mile)

Never had a chance

63 first half marathon. Second half in 75 minutes. I really Stinsoned it.

Daichi Kamino wrote:

63 first half marathon. Second half in 75 minutes. I really Stinsoned it.

Worse than I remember:

5 km 0: 15: 04 0: 15: 04 7

10 km 0: 30: 09 0: 15: 05 6

15 km 0: 45: 15 0: 15: 06 twenty three

20 km 1: 00: 17 0: 15: 02 12

Intermediate 1: 03: 38 0: 03: 21 16

25 km 1: 15: 28 0:11:50 16

30 km 1:31:24 0: 15: 56 14

35 km 1: 48: 01 0: 16: 37 12

40 km 2: 08: 26 0:20:25 19

Finish 2: 19: 28 0:11:02 29[/quote]

First (and only marathon I've ever run). Signed up on a whim and just went for it.

First half: 1:13

Finishing time: 2:50. It all hit at 17-18.

Worst part was I was in really good shape at the time. Walked/jogged for the last 6+ miles.

Have had some rough 5ks where I've gone 5:15 and then 5:30-40 the last two. I've maintained pace before but I've done this before where the last mile I crawl home at what I can run for 10k.

Marathon I've done a 1:23/1:33. Just had a bad day.

My parents still make fun of me over my league meet 3200 as a senior. Basically the D1 guys who were way faster than me were in the race, plus my crush was in the stands...I was only a 10:10 seed going against 9 mid/low guys (Ohio) and ripped the first 800 in something like 2:15. Out in front feeling great- at 400 I remember thinking “why didn’t I just run this fast every time?” Then the wall hit HARD at 800. Jogged it home in barely under 12 minutes in shame. May have gotten lapped too, I can’t remember.

58xx pb

66xx

for 2:05.05 pb

Picked the wrong race to have my best 800m. It's was stacked with sub 2 guys down to 1:53/4. Couldn't get near the inside lane and it was blowing an almost gake especially in 2nd lap with no cover

I'd done 59 twice in open 400m races so don't know how ran faster.

2:05.05 is the exact split of 1980 1500m final only try were jogging

Next day did 16:12 5000m on again windy as usual in North West England.

The 1 hour later was pace make for friend in 1500m to burn off 800m guy.

Hit 62 and kept pace only about another 100m then completely locked with lactic I've never felt like that. Still managed about 4:42 my friend won in 3:57 his best in years.

I never like to double but should have maybe that day as was in shape to beat 4:19 pb. All rubbish times as good club runners were sub 2, 4 and 15.

All races were in local club championships.