Ready for sub 90 half?

Your 5k time indicates sub 90 for sure. The previous 1:35 HM suggests poor endurance.

You might get it, you might even get 1:26. Or you might blow up and run 1:40.

If your 8 miles were suppposed to be tempo work, I am inclined to say it was too long of a workout. 55 mins at HMP is hard. At LT it is a time trial.

Impossible to say, really.

Based on your 8mi workout, you should be able to break 90mins, provided it was in the middle or toward the end of a training block...And also providing you've got a good amount of mileage under your belt. What have your long runs looked like?

When I first broke 90, i was averaging around 40 miles/week for the 8 weeks leading up to the race, with a couple of 15 mi long runs (with HMP mixed in). At that time, I would've never been able to run 8mi at HMP in training.That's a very tough workout.

Also other variables to keep in mind: What's the HM course like? Is it hilly? Are you used to running hills? Will you be with a pace team?

Sorry for late reply.

Iv also lost about 8kg of weight since my last half. My long runs I have done mostly at easy pace and went all way to 20 miles about a month ago for a race and held it comfortable at 8 minute miles as I just wanted the hoody it came with. After my last half I knew endurance was bad so done a 15, 17, 19 and the previously mentioned 20 miler.

Have averaged 35 miles a week since last half which is an increase from 25. And since 20 miler I have done 10 to 13 miles at easy pace, more time on feet though.

The course is 5 mile slight incline 5 miles slight decline and flat. No pace team but I have added the odd week off hill repeats and the 20 miler was ridiculously hilly.

Easy pace = 8-8:30 pace for long runs

THanks for the comments.

I did 8.3 miles in 56:00 at 6:44 pace this past xc season, and I doubt that I would have broke 88 minutes in the 1/2. But i'd say i would have went sub 1:30

Losing 8kg should be enough all by itself to cut 5 min off your time! Between that and getting faster over the shorter distances you should be able to go sub 1:30 without to much trouble. That being said predicting one time based on another is an imperfect art at best...

Thanks for the feed back guys. I'm going to go for it and see how I go. Won't learn anything if I don't try.

I should be able to but just not confident after 10 miles but my endurance is a lot better now!

All the responses appreciated. I'll update when I finish

Thanks

Looks like you're in good enough shape to go for it, though I do have a comment about your training.

Are you really doing 35mpw with a 17+mi long run? What is your training plan like? four 4mi runs and a 19?

Rule of thumb is that your long run should be somewhere around 30% of your weekly mileage and def not more than 40%.

40 miles a week should look something like: 4 - 8 - 4 - 8 - 4 - 0 - 12

Having your long run be such a huge percentage of weekly mileage is a great way to get hurt.

Come in at 89:00 exactly.

My long runs were only that long until the 20 miler then I changed to 40 miles a week with a 10-13 mile long run.

Thanks for giving me the added confidence guys.

How did it go? Even splits? What was your race plan?

I tried to keep at 6:50 a had a few with slightly longer downhills that came 6:46 etc then though I was dieing at mile 11 as came in at 7:04 but knew I had few seconds spare but then ran a 6:39 mile 12 to get it done with a minute to spare.

I tried to take each mile as it came, mile 1-5 was hard but once really in rythm 5-10 was a breeze but then had to get gritty onwards!

So yeah in short tried to keep an even pace.

V1per41 wrote:

Looks like you're in good enough shape to go for it, though I do have a comment about your training.

Are you really doing 35mpw with a 17+mi long run? .

Lot of different ways to train. I went 6 months doing 30 mpw on 2 runs. I got in great half marathon shape. Ran a strong 30k and 16 mile trail race. Each run was between 12 and 18 miles.