Half marathon average time by age

Let’s first make it clear that a ‘good’ half marathon time is not a clear-cut thing – unless, perhaps, you are an elite runner chasing a set mark for qualification purposes.

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Instead, each race is a personal achievement and every runner has their own unique reason for lining up on a half marathon start line. Not all races – particularly for new runners – are about time and position. Only one in 10 runners in the UK have completed a half marathon, according to SportShoes.com’s 2023/24 annual running report.

So, just completing the distance is an achievement itself.

That said, a Google search shows us that runners around the world continue to ask this one question: ‘What is a good half marathon time?’ Keen to identify both a ‘good’ time and the ‘average’ one, we explored data collated by RunRepeat, which analysed a whopping 107.9 million race results from more than 70 thousand events in 209 countries between 1986 and 2018.

That’s a whole lot of data to digest.

Whether it’s your very first foray into the half marathon distance o

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