Sub-90 Minutes for the Half Marathon (2011) (Read 6735 times)

I hesitate to start another goal thread. But, maybe there are enough people with this round number on their minds.  Anyone, anyone?

Insights from gangsters of good will are earnestly solicited.

Attempting

Barefoot Josh

BCR

Candice S.

Chris UK

CliveFenster

CNYrunner

Coockie_jr

Dickey

DJL

dreamless sleep

dspeer

extendedsolo

Dumas

Greg_C

henteaser

James_H

jerbreck

jpdeaux

James_H

JimHowe

kmark

Jules2

L Train

longtimesun

MandyS

NaderAlfie

Slosh252

Tchuck

Walt.RB

Lineup

dspeer - Lebanon, TN, 2/12

MandyS - Wellington, 2/20

L Train  - Half at the Hamptons, 2/20

Greg_C - Half at the Hamptons, 2/20

Slosh252 - Colchester Half Marathon, 2/26

James_H - Tom King, 3/12

Matt_B - Tom King, 3/12

CNYrunner - NYC Half Marathon, 3/20

Slimbo - NYC Half Marathon, 3/20

jpdeaux - New Bedford Half Marathon, 3/20 

Barefoot Josh - Martinsville Half Marathon, 3/26

Coockie_jr - National Marathon, 3/26

Chris UK Friskney Half, 4/3

Jules2 - Belvoir Half, 4/3

NaderAlfie - Asbury Park Half Marathon, 4/16

MandyS - Rotorua, 4/30 or Nelson, 5/1

NaderAlfie - Long Branch Half Marathon, 5/1

kmark - 5/1

Tchuck - Green Bay Marathon (Half), 5/15

Candice S. The Rockford Marathon (Half), Rockford, IL, 5/15

dreamless sleep - Pittsburgh HM, Pittsburgh, PA 5/15

MandyS - Christchurch Half Marathon, Christchurch, NZ, 6/5

MandyS -  Harbour Capital Half Marathon, Wellington, NZ, 6/19

Tief - Eisenbahn Marathon (Half), West Bend, Wisconsin, 8/27

BCR - Emerald City Half Marathon, Dublin , Ohio, 9/4

Tchuck - Fox Cities Marathon (Half), Appleton, Wisconsin, 9/18

BCR - State to State Half Marathon, Oxford, Ohio, 9/25

jerbreck - Blakes Half Marathon, Montreal, Quebec, 9/25

NaderAlfie - Newport Liberty Half Marathon, Jersey City, New Jersey, 9/25

Walt.RB - Hudson- Mohawk 1/2 Marathon, Albany, NY 10/9

NaderAlfie - Pequannock Half Marathon, Pequannock, NJ, 10/22

MoBramExam - The Mid-South Championship HM, Wynne, AR, 11/5

extendedsolo - Tyranena Beer Run, Lake Mills, WI, 11/5

JimHowe - Clarksburg Half Marathon, 11/13

NaderAlfie - Philadelphia Marathon (Half), 11/20

Dumas - Holiday Half Marathon, Portland, OR, 12/11

longtimesun - Holiday Half Marathon, Portland, OR,12/11

Minutewoman

MandyS - 1:29:47

Minutemen

Coockie_jr (1:19:22; 1:22:00)

PaulyGram (1:26:15)

sAc238 (1:27:34)

MoBramExam (1:28:01)

extendedsolo (1:28:10)

kmark (1:28:28)

James_H (1:28:39)

Slimbo (1:28:59)

pr100  (1:29:01)

L Train (1:29:22)

jpdeaux (1:29:44)

NaderAlfie (1:29:51)

Walt.RB (1:29:54)

srlopez, no less!

Hey, man what should we call people who succeed? I see all the other threads calling them "graduates." I dunno.

I don't know.  I *do* know that really fast half people start referring to their times in minutes ("I ran a 68 minute half").  I find it rather hilarious when people refer to themselves as running "a 95 minute half".  Settle down.

Once upon a time at the San Francisco Marathon, two guys started barging their way through the starting area asking people if this was "the elite corral, the fast one".  I asked them how fast they were planning on running... because that year, the race start behind the elites was simply an honor system of seeding oneself appropriately. And they didn't look elite.  Their answer?  "We are planning on running a 95 minute half".  Settle down.

My point: I dunno when it is appropriate to start referring to oneself as a minute-based half marathoner without looking estupido.  It is somewhere below 90 (1:30). Probably way below.  I am going to go with 75 (1:15).

So people who have made the sub-1:30 goal are in the gray area on this.

Minutemen.

And Minutewomen.

Add me to the semi-in group.  I am not looking at sub-1:30 but at hitting around 1:30:XX this year some time.  I have run sub-1:30 in the past but I'm in new territory now that I am 47 and dealing with arthritic knees.  Am thinking about running the Charlottesville half and actually started a Pfitz training plan with that in mind, but that would probably not be a 1:30 attempt as I hear it is quite hilly.  Maybe at Rock n Roll here in VB in September. 

This time last year this goal was in the back of my head, then shit happened, so I need to wait until 2012 to even think about it.  As Marisa says my biological clock is ticking, so I'll just have to wait and see how things go.

And I'm just posting this useless blather to test L-Train's resistance.

This time last year this goal was in the back of my head, then shit happened, so I need to wait until 2012 to even think about it.  As Marisa says my biological clock is ticking, so I'll just have to wait and see how things go.

 

And I'm just posting this useless blather to test L-Train's resistance.

Speaking of LTrain ... I think Nader should go ahead and add him to the list of hopefulls. Half at the Hamptons, Feb 20.

I'll give it a go. I did 1:30:36 in my first (and last) half in April 2010.

Had I been a few months older last time I would have headed the V60 group by about 5 minutes so now that I'm 60 I'm also aiming for a group win in the same race. April 3rd will be my "D Day" so plenty of time to get some miles in.

I don't know.  I *do* know that really fast half people start referring to their times in minutes ("I ran a 68 minute half").  I find it rather hilarious when people refer to themselves as running "a 95 minute half".  Settle down.

 

Once upon a time at the San Francisco Marathon, two guys started barging their way through the starting area asking people if this was "the elite corral, the fast one".  I asked them how fast they were planning on running... because that year, the race start behind the elites was simply an honor system of seeding oneself appropriately. And they didn't look elite.  Their answer?  "We are planning on running a 95 minute half".  Settle down.

 

My point: I dunno when it is appropriate to start referring to oneself as a minute-based half marathoner without looking estupido.  It is somewhere below 90 (1:30). Probably way below.  I am going to go with 75 (1:15).

 

So people who have made the sub-1:30 goal are in the gray area on this.

 

Minutemen.

 

And Minutewomen.

Yeah I'd say grey area for sure.