Story
My wife was kind enough to drop me off at Taughannock so I could run this downhill. I ended up settling into about 6:20 pace for the first five miles. I slowed a bit for mile 6 (6:28), and during mile 7 my watch told me that I was running 7:40 pace. I definitely felt like I was slowing down, but surely not that much! I didn’t completely trust my watch after that and just tried to run a hard effort until the end. The wonky splits turned out to be GPS error (check out the goofy map on Strava), and since I glanced at my watch at the halfway sign I can be sure that I actually negative split the course (26:35/26:19). Good enough for 2nd place on the course leaderboard (just 16 seconds behind Mik!)