Forums >Racing>Quick question about 1/2 marathon on Sunday
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There is a really important piece of information missing. There are trails and then there are TRAILS. Is this upcoming half on what might be considered a technical trail? Say, a skinny trail with an uneven surface, rocks and/or roots, and maybe some steep dips and rises along the way? And that last half... was it a trail race? Without this info (maybe even with this info), it's hard to know. I've run road (half) marathons at 1:30 and tougher trail marathons where it was everything I could do to make it under 2.
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I wouldn't worry about pace on a trail run. Go by effort. Just run it.
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Of course I'd say the same thing about a road half marathon, too.
Well, I ran the race today. The trails weren't too bad. Most of them were fairly smooth. There were a couple places where you had to run single file. My Garmin 201 was inaccurate because of weak signals in the trees and quite often said I was running around 15-16 miles per minute. I ended up running faster than I had planned, and wasn't sure if I could keep up the pace for the whole race. I pressed on though and finished in 2:03:46 a lot faster than I had planned. I am registered for a 1/2 marathon road race next month. Something tells me I might not be able to improve on this time much by then. Lu