Once you have done your first, you can then focus on improving it. Your first half-marathon is always going to be a PB! And a very well deserved one! Many first-time half-marathoners’ goal is to reach the other end, rather than achieving a specific time. What is a good time for your first half marathon? And if you want to be faster than the average runner (independent of age), you would need to run a half marathon in a faster time than 2 hours 14 minutes 59 seconds, that is holding a pace of 6:24 per km/ 10:18 per mile. And to be an average male runner you would need to finish in 1 hour 59 minutes and 48 seconds. These times are based on 35 million results collected in the last 20 years from more than 28,000 races.Īccording to their research, to be a female average runner (half marathon distance) you would need to cross the finish line in 2 hours 24 minutes 03 seconds. In 2021, Vania Nikolova wrote Compare Running Finish Times - 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, Marathon which is published on RunRepeat’s website. ![]() If you are wanting to be the speediest, faster than these times at an approved event would do just that. ![]() ![]() Is your goal is to run the fastest ever recorded half marathon? The fastest ever half marathons are 62:52 by Letensebet Gidey (Ethiopia female runner) in 2021 (Valencia) and 57:31 by Jacob Kiplimo (Uganda male runner) in 2021 (Lisbon) (current as of 11th July 2022). With that said, we know it is very beneficial and motivating to have a goal when training for a half marathon.
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