Good timing on the post! … I just ran a 15k in Schenectady, NY on Sunday. Running race pace down a long hill of blacktop with wet leaves … yikes! Definitely puts you “in the now”. It was pretty scary and I didn’t go full out downhill, but I was happy to take advantage and have a 30 second improvement on that particular mile of the race. And passing all of those that passed me on the way up was pretty satisfying, too!
I’ve heard the recommendation to lean into it a little bit, to avoid “breaking”, but that’s not something that I feel comfortable practicing often.