hold the phone wrote:
First, you say that running a half marathon at marathon pace should be an easy tempo workout.
Then you say (using a definition that I agree with) that tempo pace is "fastest you could do for one hour in race conditions."
That means, by your definition, that if you run a half-marathon at "tempo pace", IT'S AN ALL-OUT RACE! Hall clearly said he was using this half as a workout, which means he'd be expecting to run it slower that your definition of tempo pace. Otherwise it wouldn't be a workout -- it would just be a race.
Read, guy. Read. You are saying nothing that contradicts me at all.
First, I never said that running a half at MP is an "easy tempo workout." It is not a "tempo" of any sort. It is an MP WORKOUT. As we seem to agree, MP is NOT tempo pace.
A HALF MARATHON at TEMPO pace is, of course, an all-out effort to sustain - a race effort - if it takes close to an hour. As is the case for Hall and all other elites.
On the other hand, a HALF MARATHON at MARATHON PACE is a solid marathon workout. That's it. NOT a tempo.