A little different spin on my usual progression run tonight. Went to the River Trail for an out-and-back. Ran out for exactly one hour (6.30 miles), including a slow warmup and two shoe-tying stops. Decided I wanted to get as big a negative split as I could. Didn't look at the Garmin, since I knew the mileage, just ran. Got back to the car in less than 53 minutes -- more than a minute a mile negative split (showed 6.27 miles coming back, maybe because I tried to run tangents on the trail where I could). I could run a lot of tangents coming back because I had the trail to myself. In two hours I saw two people, standing besides a car parked at the skateboard park, and one set of headlights. That's it. No runners, no bikers, no dogwalkers, and two furry creatures of undetermined species, maybe otters or muskrats or some other aquatic rodent. | 