Moran? I think that is a bit of overreach. Since I don't pay to race much anymore, time trialing any distance is my new de facto "race day."
I think races are over-priced and I never know if I'll have people to race with (or if I will be gapped the whole time). I also hate trying to schedule my life around a race. I can TT on days when the weather, family, work, and training all line up.
Time trials are my "races" these days and I can have my buddies pace me (they are faster anyway). I love doing the TT as my hardest effort.
No, not a Moran, a moron.
You eschew races and make time trials your races, yet you want to know what you could race a half marathon in after time trialing. I guess by that logic you could race a half marathon in exactly the same time you time trialed it in.
I am not the OP. I know what I can run a half in because I run them fairly hard, two or three times a year, and as you said, doubt I would run any faster in a "real race." Being paced by faster friends is about as optimal as an effort can get. Anyway, I am not the person asking the question.
And moran is the correct spelling here on Letsrun; welcome to the land of typos.
Anyone who time trials a half marathon is a moron.
Moran? I think that is a bit of overreach. Since I don't pay to race much anymore, time trialing any distance is my new de facto "race day."
I think races are over-priced and I never know if I'll have people to race with (or if I will be gapped the whole time). I also hate trying to schedule my life around a race. I can TT on days when the weather, family, work, and training all line up.
Time trials are my "races" these days and I can have my buddies pace me (they are faster anyway). I love doing the TT as my hardest effort.
OK. You don't race so it doesn't matter. Why are you asking about it?
That’s a good point. I’ve run a 10K and a marathon in the last month, and my watch is about 1% off consistently short. (A mile on the watch is about .99 miles in reality).
Depending how hard you push yourself on solo runs and how accurate the 13.1 course was, I’d say 1:25-1:27.
A lot of variables here. Mostly mental ones. Some do better in time trails than races because the pressure is off and they can run "free". Some do worse because they thrive on the nervous energy and competition. If that was an actual "race effort" I wouldn't expect to do any more than a minute better in a real race with carbon shoes.
In a race situation my guess is that you could do between 1:20 and 1:25 in the same course and conditions (and wearing the same shoes). With the given info it's hard to nail it down any closer.
As for the shoes I've heard they're good for 4 percent improvement. Might not be exactly that but it's a starting point for an estimate.
That's a 4% improvement in RUNNING ECONOMY, not speed. Even then the improvements vary a lot and the best seen in a group of elite runners. Some see
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As for guessing your HM time. There are far too many variables at play to make a realistic guess of what you could do e.g. was it measured by GPS or was over an accurately measured course?
The only way of finding out is to to run a certified race.
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