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Originally Posted by Chief Rum
Those of you who follow me on Strava will already know my general results, but just to update here...
I ran the OC Half with an official time of 1:53:59. I am somewhere in the middle on this result.
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I think I already said it on facebook, but great job again on the race! I think it is cool that you are running the 3 half marathon series right? Do you get a special medal or anything for completing all three?
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Originally Posted by Kodos
My goal is modest - a sub-2 hour half. I ran close to that in a practice run last fall. (2:02:57)
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From the paces that you usually run on Strava, I think you should be able to break that pretty easily (as long as all of your Strava runs haven't been all out effort or anything). I think you're going to do great in your race. Which one are you running?
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Originally Posted by FrogMan
Thanks! Have fun at your race, enjoy the moment! 
In other news, that 1:33:33 when plugged into Jack Daniels's calculator would predict a 3:15:02 marathon time, or a 7:26 pace. Yeeeeeeah right. Don't see that happening for a first marathon. Goal pace as it stands now is about 8:00/mile which would be good an oustanding finish time of 3:29:36 and again, somtehing I think I could build on. I really want to run it even split instead of slowing down so much in the second half.
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I think one of the mistakes that I made my first two marathons was in believing the calculators on estimated marathon finish time. Both cases ended up being way too fast for me.
I read some recent studies that seem to indicate those times for a marathon really are more suited for an elite runner, or perhaps experienced runners that have many many years of base built up more so than someone who has "only" run a few years or perhaps not even run the marathon distance much at all.
Their studies seemed to indicate that it is far more common for a newer marathoner to finish a marathon in roughly their half marathon pace + 1 minute per mile. Based on that, the calculation comes out to being a 3:40:57. (Still something pretty far out of my reach )