09/10/2026
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Half Marathon Race Finish Times 🏃 🏃♀️ 🏁
The average half marathon is 1:59:48 for men and 2:24:03 for women.
That first number is not a coincidence. The two-hour barrier sits almost exactly at the male median, which is why so many training plans are built around it and why the data bunches up there. Runners aim at 1:59, and enough of them hit it that the whole distribution bends around that line.
For women the two-hour half is a different animal entirely. It beats 80% of the field.
The top of the table is where the distances separate. A 1:18:37 half for men and 1:35:55 for women both sit in the top 1%, and both require holding a pace most runners cannot hold for a single mile, for thirteen of them.
At the other end, 2:42:48 and 3:08:21 still beat 10% of everyone who lines up. The half rewards patience more than speed, and the middle of this table is full of people who worked out how to hold something steady for two hours.
Numbers from RunRepeat, based on 35 million race results across 28,000 races.
