THe american record was set by Ryan Hall in Houston a couple years ago. He ran it in just under 59 minutes. That’s ridiculously fast. I run around 1:39 to 1:42, depending on the course, which usually puts me around 8th-90th percentile for the race. Anything better than 1 hr 30 minutes would be considered really good and 1 hour 15 minutes is good enough to win some smaller half marathons
Half the people in a half marathon get there in about 2 hours.
A good time is around 1:30 to 1:40
Anything under 1:30 and you are going to be in the top 10% of runners generally
What is an ideal time for you? Not sure – depends how you are running at the moment but under 1:45 is good
I would say anything under 2 hours would be competitive for an age-grouper. But if you are on more of the elite variety, anywhere between 1 and 1 1/2 hours.
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THe american record was set by Ryan Hall in Houston a couple years ago. He ran it in just under 59 minutes. That’s ridiculously fast. I run around 1:39 to 1:42, depending on the course, which usually puts me around 8th-90th percentile for the race. Anything better than 1 hr 30 minutes would be considered really good and 1 hour 15 minutes is good enough to win some smaller half marathons
Half the people in a half marathon get there in about 2 hours.
A good time is around 1:30 to 1:40
Anything under 1:30 and you are going to be in the top 10% of runners generally
What is an ideal time for you? Not sure – depends how you are running at the moment but under 1:45 is good
I would say anything under 2 hours would be competitive for an age-grouper. But if you are on more of the elite variety, anywhere between 1 and 1 1/2 hours.
1:30 should get you there.