Looking for advice regarding Half Marathon Training

Not sure if you mean literal dying or hitting the wall, but if you hit the wall before the finish line you didn't give it all you were capable of. Your greatest capability is knowing what your best reasonable pace is, and maybe speeding up at the end if you underestimated. Overestimating and crashing is not giving it your best.

I know this is not your question or all that helpful. Congrats on your continued improvement. Keep up the good work.

Yeah, I meant hitting the wall. Dying doesn't sound too fun, and yeah I agree with you on the best reasonable pace being your all.

I think that 1:17 is very reasonable, I have similar 5k and 13.1 PRs to you and have had similar workouts as the ones you gave (but I havent raced a half in 4 years). You could try a 2x4mi at goal HM pace a few weeks before?

If you get good weather, I think you'll be very close to 1:17, with the possibility of getting into the 1:16s if you have a perfect day. Your tempo and interval paces look similar to mine, and I went 1:17 this spring on a hilly course.

Based on my own experience, I think you'll need to be well over 80 miles per week if you're going to break 2:40 at Boston in the spring. I certainly think it's a reasonable goal for you, though.

I live near Chicago, so I'll probably shoot you a follower request on Strava. Good luck! The progress you've made in 2 years is impressive.

1:17 seems like a good goal. Sub 2:40 in Boston seems like a recipe for disaster. I would recommend shooting for 2:45-2:49. In my opinion you would need more experience, more mileage, and sub 1:15 half to consider sub 2:40 there.

Thanks. Been meaning to switch up the threshold runs, and do some intervals at HP pace. 2x4 mi sounds a bit out of my reach rn at this very moment, but in a couple weeks time, I will definitely try it. Still increasing my threshold till I get to 8 miles near HP. Then I'll cap it and start experimenting with intervals to tune it up a little.

Thanks for the response, and I would tend to agree, but depending on how my training goes, the sheer amount of time till Boston just really makes me want to try if I start pushing 80-90 mile weeks. I agree a faster half would be a better indication.

Praying for good weather indeed. I agree on the mileage increase for Boston, and I can see myself getting there if everything goes as planned. I think im a year round high mileage guy, so pushing it to 90-100 doesn't seem too intimidating. Thanks for the follow, and good job on your 1:17.

You can manage 1:16 or so. No reason to go beyond 5-6 miles at half pace though.

A good rule of thumb is that you can get in about 10% of your weekly mileage in a cruise intervals workout (intervals at tempo pace with short passive rest). Given your overall volume, 8 total miles of running at half marathon pace is not particularly excessive, but I agree that 2 x 4 miles is daunting at this point, so I would tinker with some other workouts first - 3 x 2 miles, 4 x 2 miles, 2 x 3 miles and then maybe 2 x 4 miles.

The 1:17 half will be a real challenge, but definitely within the realm of reasonable goals.

Worry about your time goal for Boston when the calendar reads 2018.