How Long Is A Half Marathon?

Here is the distance of a half marathon in km and miles, plus some helpful links for how long it takes to train for a half marathon and what to do in the week before a half marathon. 

HOW LONG IS A HALF MARATHON

A half marathon is 13.1 miles or 21.1 kilometres (21,097m to be exact). 

• Here’s how long it takes to train for a half marathon
• Here’s what to do in the final week before your half marathon
• Most runners take between 1.5 and 2.5 hours to run a marathon

HOW LONG IS A MARATHON

A marathon is exactly twice as long as a half marathon.

A marathon is 26.2 miles or 42.2 kilometres, and here’s the reason WHY a marathon is 26.2 miles.

DID YOU KNOW…

• One mile is 1,609m
• One kilometre is 0.62 of a mile 
• Here are full distance conversions in miles and kms for runners

Want to see how well our presenters know how far a half marathon is? We challenged them to run a half marathon without looking at their watch to see how far they’ve gone. Will anyone get close to 13.1 miles?!

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