Piper cherokee pilot reported executing an aborted takeoff that resulted in a runway excursion.

Attributes
ACN	1564854
Time
Date	201807
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	LAL.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28R Cherokee Arrow All Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 1245 Flight Crew Type 100
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

It was a normal takeoff. Applied power held brakes called airspeed alive rotated about 5 knots above rotation normal pitch up and tried to accelerate to vy 89 kts. Was not able to reach that airspeed to make a normal climb and was not sure if the airplane was performing correctly decided to abort takeoff with still having runway available. Once on the ground applied heavy braking and full aft elevator to try slow down before end of runway. Not able to stop by end of runway and over ran about 75 ft. Onto grass. No damage to airplane or runway markings nor any injury to people or property. Was a hot day density altitude should not had played a factor due to it was only 1500 ft. Airplane was under takeoff weight I believe trying to get the airspeed for proper climb to the amount of runway left was the issue the only other decision would had been to abort just a little earlier. Runway in use 5.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Piper Cherokee Pilot reported executing an aborted takeoff that resulted in a runway excursion.

Narrative: It was a normal takeoff. Applied power held brakes called airspeed alive rotated about 5 knots above rotation normal pitch up and tried to accelerate to Vy 89 kts. Was not able to reach that airspeed to make a normal climb and was not sure if the airplane was performing correctly decided to abort takeoff with still having runway available. Once on the ground applied heavy braking and full aft elevator to try slow down before end of runway. Not able to stop by end of runway and over ran about 75 ft. onto grass. No damage to airplane or runway markings nor any injury to people or property. Was a hot day density altitude should not had played a factor due to it was only 1500 ft. Airplane was under takeoff weight I believe trying to get the airspeed for proper climb to the amount of runway left was the issue the only other decision would had been to abort just a little earlier. Runway in use 5.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.