In a sport that can be measured in milliseconds, improving your half marathon time by 1 minute is a lot… and 10 minutes is an eternity.
Most runners only see such huge time improvements when they first begin running and racing.
At that point the body has plenty of room for big leaps and the brain does too.
But it doesn’t have to stop there.
My friend Allie is proof. At 39 years old, and after more then a decade of running and racing, she cut her half marathon PR (personal record) from 1:38 to 1:28. It can be done at any age and at any time during your running life.
Run a Faster Half Marathon Time
Whether you are trying to break the Sub Two Hour half marathon or crank it down to 1:28, here is everything you need to know to run a faster half marathon.
And before we go any farther, just know that a good half marathon time is personal!
It’s about your training, your body, your life and what progress looks like in your running.
1. Understand it will be hard.
Setting a goal as big as subtracting 10 minutes off your overall half marathon time will at first, make you feel like a badass and likely scare you.
By the middle of training, those “good” scary feelings may be replaced with just plain scared, tired, doubtful and can have you on the verge of quitting.
You’ll be…
