I’m going to be blunt about this one: a fad diet won’t fuel you to your best race. When I trained seriously to achieve my 2-hour half marathon goal, I incorporated four key elements into my plan that helped improve my speed: How to Get Faster to Meet the 2-Hour Half Marathon Goal Pace You need to break the 2-hour half marathon mark. Let’s talk about ways to get faster so you can hold the pace But if you’re reading this, I’m willing toīet you’re more like me and this is goal is a significant challenge for you.

Whether this is an easy pace or a ridiculously impossible pace will be COMPLETELY DIFFERENT for different runners! As I mentioned already, the actual difficulty is dependent on many different factors.įor some people, it might be pretty easy. In this post, I’m going to guide you through the different factors you need to improve that will help get you to your 2-hour half marathon goal including how to calculate pace, what key workouts to include in your training plan, how to avoid injury, and how to fuel your body effectively.įirst, we need to address the obvious: a 2-hour half marathon requires an average pace of 9:09 minutes per mile. The rest of us (like myself) have to work really freaking hard to develop the fitness capacity to sustain a pace fast enough to run a sub 2-hour half marathon without dying!! Some people (like my husband) can go out and run a sub 2-hour half marathon without much training at all. The actual difficulty of achieving a 2-Hour half marathon is dependent on each runner and several factors including age, weight, current running ability, body type, past running experience, nutritional habits, training methods, and much more. If you can break the 2-hour mark, you really can’t call yourself a slow runner anymore! Running a half marathon in 2 hours is a serious time goal for many runners. (Side note: You ARE already a real runner! If you don’t believe me, then you need to read this) For some reason, the 2-hour half marathon is one of the most common time goals I see among recreational runners.Ģ Hours seems to be the magical number to make us feel like real runners.

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