What is an ideal time for running a half marathon?

I am healthy and athletic. I want to run a half marathon in a competitive speed, but not too competitive to qualify for a regional or national level.|||Half the people in a half marathon get there in about 2 hours.





A good time is around 1:30 to 1:40





Anything under 1:30 and you are going to be in the top 10% of runners generally





What is an ideal time for you? Not sure - depends how you are running at the moment but under 1:45 is good|||are these answers generic to all gender or male only?

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|||THe american record was set by Ryan Hall in Houston a couple years ago. He ran it in just under 59 minutes. That's ridiculously fast. I run around 1:39 to 1:42, depending on the course, which usually puts me around 8th-90th percentile for the race. Anything better than 1 hr 30 minutes would be considered really good and 1 hour 15 minutes is good enough to win some smaller half marathons|||I would say anything under 2 hours would be competitive for an age-grouper. But if you are on more of the elite variety, anywhere between 1 and 1 1/2 hours.|||1:30 should get you there.