How To Run A Sub  

Are you training for a half marathon? Do you have a specific target? Let us know in the comments down below! ↓

If I were running a Half, and someone overtook me whilst they were vlogging, I'd probably cry.

I've just completed the Brighton Half marathon. Wanted to complete it in under 2 hours. I achieved 1 hour 57 minutes so happy 😊

My half marathon pb was 1:15:01 way back in 1988. My last one was 1:41 aged 65 in 2018. Old age catches up with us all in the end.

When I try to run and talk to a GoPro… my mind goes totally blank. All I can say is “oh jeez, oh jeez, oh jeez” so I respect the living hell out of Andy and Anna. How they remember a script, run and recite is beyond me.

Just back from running my first half marathon - 1: 58. 🥳

Wow Andy, it’s awesome seeing you smash challenges super inspirational!!! much love to the the rest of The Running Channel crew/team.

Great run Andy, it’s one thing to run that time, another to be vlogging all those tips !

Great video Andy! Talking and videoing the whole way through and still achieved a fantastic time. Thanks for all the long run sessions, I always get really bored I'll have to give them a go

Blown away by how calm you are running sub 7 min pace 🤯 Solid tips thanks

Congrats Andy You did it while speaking all race long, unbelievable ! And thanks for the tips 👍

Congratulations! I can’t believe you did so great while talking to the camera. Shows what an awesome runner you are thanks for the tips.

I just ran a 1:36 yesterday, ill definitely try out these tips for a sub 90!

Great run, Andy, all while being very informative!

Congrats, well done and thanks for sharing! Very useful drills and fun following you along through the race.

Nice work Andy. I ran the New Forest half last year. A lovely course, through some stunning trail. That grass was a killer on the legs.

Well done Andy, great tips for the various training sessions.

Thank you so much for sharing these training ideas. Really looking forward to do them. I will have my 3rd half marathon on the 31st of October 🙂 congrats Andy for this great time👏🏻Awesome race👍🏻

Fair Play Andy👏👏. The RC really do like to make you suffer especially as Rick is injured. Great video and great advice, really enjoyed it.😃😃

Thanks for this Running channel! I'm now contemplating going for this time next year. Time to refocus my training 👍

Thanks so much for the tips! I recently subscribed to the running channel and find the information to be informative as well as entertaining! Keep up the great work.

Andy that was a great video and so entertaining, congrats on the race and time!

Just finished my local half, A goal was 1:50 and B goal was under 2... made it in 1:55, felt great

Thanks for describing intervals, much needed

What I like about your interval sessions is that they are entirely variable for persons with slower or faster time goals 👍

Congrats Andy ! Great Run and a great Video. I´m struggling with my HM Time (PB 1:31). This is exactly what i need. Nice variations (specially the intervall sessions). Thank you for your tips in this video.

Congratulations Andy! Wow, so many obstacles to running a sub 90min HM (heat, grass, vlogging). I'm not aiming for such a fast half marathon, but I really like how all the training sessions are adaptable to my pacing.n

Thanks Andy for the tips. I'm training for a HM with a specific finishing time. Those tips certainly a big help. Although I know its going to be tough.

This is exactly what I am aiming to do! Ran 1:33 four years ago but have not gone faster since. I am aiming to try again early next year so this video has come at the right time and I will definitely give some of those sessions a go. Thanks!

Last year my PB was 1.58. I took on some really good training tips from an experienced long distance runner. Hit 1.37 2 weeks ago while training for my first marathon. I will have a pop at 1.35 in December. 1.30 might be a target for 2022....great tips for my next training block.

Ug, long grass start and long grass finish. Has enough awareness to talk to the camera about training. Looking to run sub 90 myself but not on that course. Well done Andy.

I've been pushing progressively faster and harder each race. This looks like a good goal to shoot for. Though I'd be happy with a sub-7 min half as well. I turned 40 this year and keep hitting new PRs. Running my best ever thanks to all the training tips I've gotten from your site. I hit a 1:40 half this summer and ran my first sub-7 5K a few weeks ago. I think shaving 10 minutes is a very ambitious goal, but not impossible. Thanks TRC!

That looked like a tough course, congratulations! Strong effort and you smashed it :) This friday I went to the track and broke 1:30 for the first time myself. Then I saw this vid pop up in the Running Channel and found that amazing! My PB is now at 1:28:43 but I'm absolutely positive that Andy would kick my ass easily in a race :D

Great race and super training tips!! Where was your medal, you earned it Andy!!

Great work Andy, those interval sessions look brutal…….think I’ll stick to my sub 2hr target for now 😂

Doing my first half marathon in 2 weeks time in Liverpool and my first marathon on April 3rd next year in Manchester. When I started training for the half marathon 10 weeks ago after a large break from running I was hoping to complete it in under 2.5 hours. Thanks to my training and getting back into shape I am now hoping to complete it in under 2 hours assuming reasonable conditions on the day. One thing I did find useful as a novice runner was running in a few 10km races instead of my normal long runs during my training as it has made me aware of how easy it is to run faster than intended on race days which I just about got away with in the 10km races but doubt I will be so lucky in a Half Marathon. On the topic of intervals while I can definitely see their benefit they would take the fun out of running for me as they are too regimented, the closest I come to running intervals is what you would probably consider "fartleks" as I pick up the pace on some strava segments on my route to see if I can beat my PB on them and slow down between them. I also have to confess to being unable to follow your Tempo runs as I currently lack the fine control over my running pace to reliably differentiate between easy, HM and Marathon pace

Great training session ideas to upload to the watch!! Cheers Andy

Andy is a BEAST!!!!

Great job. Training for first full. I have a half coming up in about a month as a test run for my pace plan

Congratulations Andy!! I'm training for my fifth half in January and I have a 10k in 3 weeks as a trial. Although my goals are different and I'll be going for 1h50min, I will try my 10k at 3.1-mile marathon pace and the other 3.1 at half-marathon pace. I'm so excited to race again!🙂

That was a great run, brilliant result!

Awesome video Andy

Well done, running and talking at that pace is impressive.

Great video, helping to get a general understanding. Will race my first "official" (recorded time) Half Marathon in some months and am now struggling to find a "reasonable yet challenging" goal time. If all goes well in training I might aim for a time around 1:40, will see during preparation if it is possible.

Great advice. Thanks. I will be working towards this for sure 👊

Andy makes it look so easy!

Great video, amazing how you manage to run sub 90 mins and remember the training schedule. Something to work towards for my next one in Feb having just run London.

It's impressive that you can do that and record 10min of footage for video, and then you realise there's probably another thirty minutes that hit the edit room floor

I ran 1:32 in the Bristol Half recently narrowly missing out on the sub-90 I was training for I'm still happy with my time though got my B goal of a pb and it was an amazing event!

Well done Andy. One day would love to run a half in 2 hours 30. PB so far 2.47.50. Back of the pack girl

I saw the video title and my first thought was it was too easy for you! But then I saw that you were on grass and actually recording the video while doing it. I just signed up for a half with the goal of breaking 90 minutes. My PR earlier this year was about 1:34 so I think it's possible

Great result Andy. I’m training fir the Benidorm 1/2 at the end of November, hoping to take my time (2:08 Brighton Feb 2020) down to sub 2 hrs…. Hopefully 1:55 or so!

Ran a 1:54 half in August, I think with some more long runs under my belt and a smarter pre race dinner choice I could get sub 1:45 next year! Excited to work towards that goal once xc season is over

Great run on that course! I did the marathon there last year as my first marathon and it’s definitely a deceptively brutal route.

Just ran my first half in Leiden in 1.36 today so this video has an awesome timing

Thank you Andy: useful stuff. As ever. I'm currently considering the Downton half-marathon on December 5, having done the full Southampton Marathon on September 5 and the Bournemouth Supersonic 10k October 10. I'm reckoning that, carefully considered, I can devise a seven week training plan that will taper me down to a base to train up to what I am trying to think of as a training run. That is: nothing heroic. By the way, Andy & team, I did my first marathon last year on the same course as seen on your video, at Wimborne St Giles. When the New Forest Marathon was eventually cancelled I stopped marathon training. About a fortnight later they organisers announced a new venue (it's usually run in the outskirts of Brockenhurst -- a bus ride for me) for a limited number of participant. Imagining one would have to apply I took no action. I got the bib in the post six days before the event! Not only was I only keeping parkrun fit, for "not-a-parkrunning", I had to hire a car to get there. I can't imaging how the landowner, Lord Shaftsbury, gets about? The nearest station is Salisbury, about twelve miles away, and the nearest bus stop is outside the station. To cut a long, tedious and painful story short, I tweaked my sciatic nerve a little over half way round and limped the last eight miles in agony. Still, I did manage to qualify for the banana. And the splendid T-shirt. Time: 5:17. Pleased to report that I was fit enough to walk, if a little gingerly, to the pub that evening and it only took a couple of days to recover.

Thanks for the video and tips! I’m dealing with hamstring tendinitis right now, but once I’m able, I’ll use this for my next half.

Just completed a half marathon yesterday in 1h23.11seconds! Beating my PB from a year ago that I did in 1h29.29! Big improvements and more to come!

This certainly will help, in November I’ll try a little more than a half but obviously in more time jaja ! You’re a pro!!!

Just ran a 1 hr 38 min half marathon today.. then got home....and saw this... Oh well, still rather pleased with it, it was a new pb for me, so I'll take it. Also, gives me some extra motivation for the next one!

Woot! Talking to the camera, thinking and running that fast? That was impressive, Andy. Great job!

Was meant to run Royal Parks Half this morning, aiming for around 1:35. Unfortunately I got bloody COVID on Monday. Fingers crossed I’m in good shape for Gosport next month instead and am planning on working on sub 90 early next year.

Fun idea. Can’t wait for the 5k and 50k videos!!!

Just ran my first 90 minute half a few weeks ago in training. Now that it is again possible to race I really should get myself signed up for one and make it official. I'd like to think that with a bit of race adrenaline I might squeeze another minute or two.

This is a lot of intensity in this training program! I ran a 10K at 44:27 this weekend and most of my runs are long easy runs at 6 min / km for +18 km. You don't address the 80/20 / polarized training idea, but to me, this reads as a lot of intensity. I would need to balance the intensity vs how much motivation I can sustain/mobilize for a session and how intensity my body can handle! Just adding a lot of intensity in both intervals, long runs and variations makes me think that who ever can handle this is just a beast that can handle both endurance and speed and I'm wondering if they even need a plan. Thanks for the video, gave me a lot of ideas!

Amazing!! I can’t believe you can chat while doing this - super impressive. My best half was run in 1:46:20 and that was just me doing only easy runs because I didn’t really know how to properly train with workouts at that time? That was 3 years ago and I can’t get back to that pace again. I don’t know how I did it so casually. Running another half on Halloween in a few weeks to reassess my fitness but I’m guessing I’ll be around 1:55:00. Sigh.

So impressive! How can he present the video and run that fast? If he wasn’t speaking he would run a sub 1:20 😄

Respect! Go, rocket!

This is amaaaazinggg!!

I would of thrown that selfie camera into the bushes, don't know how you put up with carrying that! Awesome work!! I'm training for a marathon in Dec right now to qualify for Boston and watching these videos helps me stay motivated!

Progressive runs is something I really do enjoy! I just re-started my running training a few days ago after being forced to stop running for 2 month (foot injury) and I can't wait to reach those 20k runs with a progressively increasing pace. Also, I'm not sure if I want to experience someone overtaking me in a racing easily chatting with his GoPro while running significantly faster than me^^

Some good tips there. My next HM aim is sub 1h45. My current PB is 1h47, so working towards a little improvement.

Thanks Andy! Love these videos. The advice, the training plans, everything is fantastic! Well done on achieving the target and thanks again as it must have been very taxing talking/ filming whilst running a race🤯. I ran the Manchester Marathon on Sunday and my goal was 3hrs 10mins. I managed to achieve this. Furthermore I set a target of sub 90mins for a HM and managed to do this in 1.27.01??!! Absolute shock and delerium😊

Well done.

Just missed out on a sub 1:35 a couple of weeks back, but improved on my previous attempt by a couple of minutes in warmer conditions so can't complain.

A great effort from Andy there. No benefits of working in a pack, running on grass, warm weather and he's recording a video.

Andy gives good advice that can be adapted to every level. My best ever HM time was 1.43 (twice) but now, at 68, I’m struggling to get 2.15. If I was still in the 1.40 region I think I could possibly have looked at sub 1.30. As it is I’m wondering if I can nudge back towards 2.00?

Just did my first half today. Grand crus marathon, Dijon, France. 2h.33. Only been running since the first lockdown which is what inspired me but haven't ran for the last 2 months so could have done better but I was happy to finish. I think the 1st position was about 1h16min.

That was EASY! Well done, I'd love to run a 1:45, 1:30 is well beyond my level.

That’s insane!

Amazing video

Congrats. 👍

Running my second half next Saturday. I have A/B/C goals. A is a sub 2 hour, which will be tough, I ran my first 55 minute 10k recently. B is PR, so anything less than 2:12 and C is just finish. Honestly anything over C will be icing on the cake since I’m in my first year of really running.

I ran a 1:30:06 at Bournemouth Half yesterday. I'm slightly gutted that I just missed the magic 90 minutes but I was aiming for 92, so trying to remember that and celebrate the achievement! Annoyingly, I paced perfectly to a 4:15 average, but the extra 300m recorded on my watch took me over.

The New Forest race day is incredible but always so hot! Congrats.

I just hit a new PB of 2:10 in training. I don't think I'll be aiming for 90 mins just yet 😂

King you are Andy great time 🏆👊✌🤪💯👍🥳

you rock!

Great vid we'll done Andy! (And editor!)

Top training tips. Gonna use them for the next one. My first half marathon is in 6 days (Amersfoort), only easy runs for me this week. My goal is to do it under 2 hours.

My guy just runs a casual sub 90 half whilst recording a video absolute legend !

Great tips! any ideas what your 5k time / pace should be in regards to the interval training tips

Just wow

Well done Andy, recording a vlog whilst running at pace is one way to make your hm even harder. What time could you do without the filming and talking?

I just did a 1:34 last month. Footwear was hurting my right foot and slowed me down for the second half. I think I can crack it next time. Thanks for the tips.

I'm training for my third HM in November, it will be my first actual race with people around. My goal is to run it under 90 min this time, last one was done in 95 min.

I like chasing people down when I race. It's not so easy to do in a virtual race though!

Andy is just incredible! Did my third ever half marathon today and ran a 1:46:08! Not sure about a sub 1:30 just yet but may vary this training when I next decide to do a half! Well done and thank you Andy and everyone at the running channel. 😁

Dam that was bang on haha

Great video. Would you recommend incorporating hill runs into training for a 90 min HM? Does this make a big difference?