1:15:14 half marathon as a 16 year old, I've only been running for a year and a half

I assume you are a girl?

Make sure you switch your GPS from kms to miles next time.

Your Welcome

It is in miles, and no I'm a guy...

B8_jenny wrote:

https://analytics.strava.com/athletes/16742688

It is in miles, and no I'm a guy...

...SURE you're a guy....whatever you say...

JENNAY!

Thoughts? Yeah...you're nothing special. Get over yourself. I ran around 1:14 at your age with half the mileage...and I'm nobody.

Sweet

Average half stats at best.

Your xc pr time is not even competitive on a local level in respected high school programs.

15:50 xc 5k pr is probably equivalent to 15:20 to 15:30 on the roads- the guys that run that fast in my area do half marathons around 1:09-1:11. If that was race effort for you, then you are better at the 5k. If it was tempo effort then you are probably equivalent at both distances. Likely 100% of runners of your ability could run that fast on any given day.

Congrats...you're only about 17 minutes or 4 miles behind the world record. But if you're proud of that...more power to you.

It's a great half time, but based on your 5k XC PR and the fact that you ran a big negative split, you could definitely run a minute faster with even split at your current fitness.

B8_jenny wrote:

I'm 16 years old and yesterday I went out for a long run, not expecting it to be fast but 5k in I felt pretty good and decided how long I could hold a decent pace and I ended up going 13.13 miles in 1:15:14. I ran on average about 80 mpw during this last cross season but I'm still in my build up phase for indoor and outdoor track and I'm at about 60 mpw in this point in my training. I'm not sure if this is really something to write home about since high schoolers don't typically run half marathons, and I'm kind of freaked out about how fast I've gotten into shape. I've only been training seriously for track for 2 weeks now. Thoughts?? (My 5k xc pr is 15:51)

Mile splits:

6:07

5:53

6:01

5:48

5:49

5:41

5:36

5:42

5:39

5:24

5:43 (big headwind when I turned right at 10.2 miles)

5:43

5:29

Last .13 in 38 seconds

Thoughts???????

Excellent run and you got into shape so quickly due to the nice summer base that you and your Chelsea teammates put in this year (I am also from Michigan and see you guys on Strava). This run is even more impressive when you consider that it was solo and done in the cold with negative splits.

I am sure that you could threaten 1:10 if you really focused on a half this summer. For reference, Eddie Owens ran 1:07:38 a few years back and he was a player on the national stage at the 5k distance.

As for what it means for this track season - there is no reason to think that you won't improve similarly to what you did in XC where I believe you cut about 1 minute. If this holds true, then you can hope to be in the 4:20/9:20 ballpark.

What everyone here is trying to say is that you are a very good runner, but the fact that you would post about it makes you seem like a douche.

Write this down: When you are good enough, you won’t have to tell anyone. They'll already know.

this was measured by your GPS? It is normally showing a bit too much, so it could easily be 12.5 miles.

Nevertheless, top nice. Keep up the good work. Base weeks of 80 miles are going to make you an aerobic monster.

Your 5k xc pr is going to fall soon.

I see why you think that, but I'm just curious as to what you guys think about this, I know lots and LOOOTTTTSSSS of people faster than I am

theJeff wrote:

What everyone here is trying to say is that you are a very good runner, but the fact that you would post about it makes you seem like a douche.

Write this down: When you are good enough, you won’t have to tell anyone. They'll already know.

Oh, c'mon. He is 16 and excited about a good training run that was unexpected. That is like 90% of LR posts regarding training. No one really wants predictions, they want to share their excitement.

That's an excellent long tempo, somewhere between your threshold and marathon pace. Good base building for track season.

Hard to go on a gps time, so you should run a real one, but suffice it to say it is very good for your age if it is real and indicates that you can run a lot faster in the next few years in a race.

B8 Jenny

You seems good intentioned, but you'll quickly learn that people on letsrun aren't going to treat you like a 16 year old kid who is excited about running fast. I know it's exciting to run what seems like a fast race, but the truth is that, as others have said, a 75min half isn't very good compared to what I've seen from your strava and what you've claimed as PRs. However, at 16 years old NOBODY is aerobically developed enough to have their 5k match up with their longer distance races.

Keep doing what you're doing. You run way too much for a 16 year old so be careful to take it easy when you have the chance. It's probably the way your school does it but be aware that there are big risks involved in training so much at a young age.