No, you didn't. A half marathon is exactly 21097 meters in miles this is: 13.109068 miles. So if you stopped at exactly 13.1 miles, and we assume your method of measurement is accurate, then no.....no you didn't run a half-marathon. aint it a-shame, to be shot down in flames!
Just run 15-20 miles to be sure. The only problem is that there's no way to prove that you did it for your friends and admirers.
grenio wrote:
Now let's talk about what constitutes a triathlon...
Three chicks on the same day.
RvaRunner wrote:
Why do we call them a half marathon anyways?
We should just call the 5k the Half 10K
We should call the 100 meters the Half 200 meters
And so on and so on.
Well, we used to call the half mile the half mile, but now we call it the 800 meters
Tanvir wrote:
I have been running for a few years now, and this question still bugs me. I asked around with my friends, and got a mix of replies, yes, no, depends, maybe..., you get it.
So, I thought why not ask the community here, a place where I visit often. What's your take on this. If I run 13.1 miles in training, can I say that I have run a half marathon?
Tanks,
Tan
I threw a football with a friend today we were on the clock for work and thus getting paid. Can I say that I play Professional Football?
If you went golfing, but not in a league, and at one point you made it with a single shot did you hit a hole in one?
Anyway, doesn't really depend upon sentence structure? Using "half-marathon" as a unit of distance vs. name of a race. The qualifier being whether it is preceded by a "a"
It's like calculating GDP - if money didn't change hands, it didn't happen.
I keep hearing everyone talk about racing and training. Admiditly I’m not the brightest runner but my 13.1 mile runs I’ve done in “training” have been at or close to “race” pace. I’ve done 6 official Half Marathon’s but probably a dozen or so in training. Personally I consider all of them Half Marathons.
If you run 13.1 miles in training, and you say to your friends that you've run a half marathon but they're not really listening to you... then did you really run a half marathon?
It's moot
Conneries wrote:
grab a spine wrote:
Why do you care what anybody thinks? Why do you need to label your run? Why are you so insecure?
I was doing a long run once out of town training for a marathon, was trying to do a 22-24 mile run (only really wanted to do 22 but was estimating the distance on trails), I ended up missing a trail and by the time I was back to my car I had run 32 miles. Really really crappy day. I don't tell people I ran an ultramarathon, I do say I once did a 32 mile training run.
(Side note, I did get a PB in the marathon I ran 4 weeks later. I do not however advocate a 32 mile training run, or the discomfort of being lost a long way from home.)
Sweet humblebrag dude
That's some good copy pasta material.
Bon Scott wrote:
No, you didn't. A half marathon is exactly 21097 meters in miles this is: 13.109068 miles. So if you stopped at exactly 13.1 miles, and we assume your method of measurement is accurate, then no.....no you didn't run a half-marathon. aint it a-shame, to be shot down in flames!
Finally!
plog wrote:
It's the year 2061. You sneak into the pharmacy area of your old folks home and pop a few dozen viagra. You wheel the first blue haired lady you can find in to your room and do the deed. Turns out it was 91 year old Cindy Crawford. Did you just nail a supermodel?
Ha. No. You did not just nail a supermodel. Not unless there is another super model named Cindy Crawford. THE Cindy Crawford was born in 1966 so in 2061 she would not be 91. Also, THE Cindy Crawford has enough money that she'll neither be in an old folks home nor have blue hair.
Also, even if you're this hypothetical cat burglar in your 80s and can break into a pharmacy undetected, I'm pretty sure after a dozen viagara you're going to be too dead to find anything, take it back to your room and nail it. Much more likely, they'll just find you dead the next morning because your heart stopped working -propped up like tripod maybe - but dead.
Unless you've got some pathetic hobby jogger mindset and actually need your collection of participation "medals" and amateurish split times to link to on your pathetic favoured social media platform, then the actual answer to the question is yes, you've run a half marathon.
The next questions though become -
1. So what?
2. Who gives a flying f---?
Only once you reach an understanding of the answer to those questions will you be ready to cast off your hobby jogger-skin and actually become a runner...
I drove a car over 26.2 miles tonight. Did I just break 2 hours?
You did a half marathon distance training run.. not to be confused with a half marathon race. Or, you could call it a 13.1 mile MLR (medium long run) which is what I usually post these runs as on Strava.
Semantics. wrote:
It is very important to distinguish between a half-marathon and a half-mary. While the former is a race, the latter is a training run. So, you have completed a half-mary. Be proud, go to the nearest Diary Queen and gorge yourself. You deserve it!
^this.
In addition it is important to buy a big 13.1 sticker, glue it to your car so that eceryone can admire you and to wear your selfmade finisher medal at work come next Monday. You even might ride a bike for 13.5 miles at 5-minute-pace, post it on strava as a run and entitle it "standard Sunday loopi-loop" and get a nice strava PR.
Cheers!