Not so negative splits today

Did a not-so-nice 5.75 miler today. The good news is that I got the mileage in, the bad news is that my recent trend of improvement came to a halt. It's funny, I could tell from the begining that I wasn't going to be able to go intense with the pace at all, so I backed off.

The plot shows the nice negative splits on the two previous runs, and todays run, including a fall-off in pace at mile 4 and the walk up 'the bitch' that really killed my pace for mile 5. At least I feel good about getting the run in.