Running

What's so great about negative splits other than testing your limit? Last year I ran my 1st HM with a negative split. I enjoyed it, didn't push too far. I'm running another one next month, have trained much better and looking to take 10+ min off my prior time. Running negative splits on a much faster pace looks scary.

not sure if there are other more “scientific” reasons for it, but is it as simple as:
1. knowing you need to push hard later should prevent you from going out too fast and blowing up 
2. when executed well, it’s more fun to pass people at the end vs hold on and get passed

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Re 2: you’ll pass the others even if you keep the pace constant. The majors end with a positive split 😅

Do you intentionally target a positive split? Or do you target an even split and if it ends up being positive, so be it?

It does 😆. Gotcha. I think I still have a long way to go so will shoot for a negative split hoping I don't fall short of my pace by the last third of the race

Oops I wrote it wrong. Major -> majority. 
The sense of my phrase changed completely 🤣

Btw I aimed at negative split when I was not optimized. Now I try to be constant and if I still have energies I increase in the last 3 or 2 km