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1️⃣Unlock Your Predicted Finish Time

Start your personalised plan to generate your predicted half marathon finish time, calculated from your current fitness. This prediction sets a distinct pace target for every session type: easy runs at true aerobic effort, tempo runs at threshold, intervals at goal pace.

As your training data accumulates, Runna’s Pace Insights tracks your actual output against those targets and recommends pace adjustments.

2️⃣Get Familiar With Your Goal Pace

Sub-1:30 pace needs to be controlled and repeatable across all 13.1 miles, not something you can only hold for a single rep. Interval and tempo sessions, each set to a precise pace target, are what build that repeatability .

✅ Every session in your personalised plan comes with a pre-run briefing covering the session’s purpose, structure, and pacing focus — so you know precisely what you’re executing and why before you start.

3️⃣Practice Progressive Runs

Sub-1:30 is a test of pacing discipline as much as fitness — the margin between executing it and missing it is usually a poorly judged first 10K. Progressive long runs, structured to start steady and build through defined phases are how you train that pacing discipline under fatigue.

✅ Runna embeds race-practice blocks directly into your long runs, so you rehearse goal pace late into a run, preparing you to execute a genuine negative split and finish in control rather than fading.

How To Pace Your Sub-1:30 On Event Day

Your target: roughly 4:16/km (aim for a 4:12–4:20/km range). Run the first 7km at that pace and no faster — banking time early almost always costs you later. Hold the same range through the middle 7km, even as it starts to bite. In the final 7km, if you’re on target and feeling strong, this is where sub-1:30 is won: gradually work the pace down over the closing kilometres.

 

Whatever your goal on event day, the training that gets you there starts now.

Use code MANCHESTERHALF26. Your first two weeks are free.

We’ll see you at the start line in Old Trafford, ready to run your strongest Manchester Half yet.