RunningAHEAD - Topic: Would someone care to explain splits?

sushigirl

Baby bean!

posted: 10/6/2008 at 8:18 PM
modified: 10/6/2008 at 8:19 PM

And not banana or the ones where your legs do a 180! Tongue

MTA: NOT that I'm anywhere near needing to know about them, but I'd LIKE to know about them. Big grin

Goals:
Finish C25K

I'm slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter, but I run.

dgb2n

Dave

posted: 10/6/2008 at 8:30 PM

Splits are just the time you took for a particular distance. In most cases a mile or kilometer. I record my heart rate for every mile as well on most runs.

I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it.

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MrFinn

Prince of Fatness

posted: 10/6/2008 at 8:58 PM

That pretty much sums it up. You may also hear someone say that they negative split a race. In this case the splits are the two halves of the race, and the person ran the second half faster than the first half.

Not at it at all.

Berner

posted: 10/6/2008 at 9:20 PM

Also commonly used for runners on a track. For races that are longer than 1 lap (i.e., 800m and longer) you'll often see the splits in 400m increments, which is equivalent to one lap around the track.

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