Learn to love negative splits. Running a negative split simply means running the last half faster than the first. You should negative split most of your distance runs, workouts, and races if you can. Negative splitting runs during training will increase your confidence to do it during a race - when time really counts. You also get a better aerobic stimulus (as in, more endurance!) when you teach your body to run faster later in a run when you’re already tired. It’s easiest to do these types of workouts on out-and-back runs where you can time each half exactly. Any workout on the track lends
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