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A half marathon is a road running event of 21.0975 kilometres (13 miles 192.5 yards)—half the distance of a marathon. [1] It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish, or shortcuts. [2]
Helsinki City Run is an annual half marathon that takes place every May as a road running event around the streets and parks of Helsinki.Starting in 1994 [1] and organised by Suomen Urheiluliitto, the race has become popular over the years, attracting a record number of 17,000 participants in 2013.
The half marathon is held on a largely out-and-back course that runs near the coastline in a northeasterly direction before following it back southwest. [22] There is a short out-and-back leg between the 7 and 10 km (4 and 6 mi) marks where the course dips south to run on the peninsula where the Málaga Lighthouse [] sits. [22]
If you’re trying to calculate how long it will take you to run a marathon, Beck says one way to calculate it is to double the amount of time it takes you to run a half marathon and add 10 ...
The Warsaw Half Marathon (Polish: Półmaraton Warszawski [3] [a]) is an annual road-based half marathon hosted by Warsaw, Poland, since 2006. [5] [3] [6] The marathon is a World Athletics Label Road Race and a member of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races. [1] [7] A 5K race is also held on the same day, before the ...
The course distance of 20,308 metres falls slightly short of the true half marathon distance (21,097.5 m). Since 2012, the course has been shortened by 308 metres so the total distance of the course became exactly 20 kilometres. [ 2 ]
On 30 March 1991, Arturo Barrios ran a world record distance of 21.101 km in one hour, becoming the first man to run the half marathon distance in under one hour. [11] On 3 April 1993, Moses Tanui became the first man to run a half marathon race in under one hour, with a time of 59:47. [12]
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