I am a male in his mid 40s who just got serious about running at the start of this year. I've been running consistently since January and am currently averaging about 50 miles a week. Right now, my half marathon time comes in at around 2 hours/9 per mile.
My current goal is to get that down to around 1:45/8 min per mile and I am just curious as to roughly how long it should take to reach that goal. I am confident that if I continue with my training I will be able to shave a minute per mile off my time eventually, but as someone who is relatively new to running, I don't really have any idea as to how long this process might take.
I am not in any sort of rush to accomplish this and I don't have any races on my calendar, so I'm just going to keep running and following my training and see what happens. But generally speaking, how long should one expect it to take to drop a minute per mile at my current paces? A few months? A year? Longer?
However long it takes is fine with me - I am just curious to hear the thoughts about this process from those with more experience.
My current goal is to get that down to around 1:45/8 min per mile and I am just curious as to roughly how long it should take to reach that goal. I am confident that if I continue with my training I will be able to shave a minute per mile off my time eventually, but as someone who is relatively new to running, I don't really have any idea as to how long this process might take.
I am not in any sort of rush to accomplish this and I don't have any races on my calendar, so I'm just going to keep running and following my training and see what happens. But generally speaking, how long should one expect it to take to drop a minute per mile at my current paces? A few months? A year? Longer?
However long it takes is fine with me - I am just curious to hear the thoughts about this process from those with more experience.