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kjlem-
It was honestly pretty routine as I wasn’t looking to break any speed records! I ended up going to 24km.
Previous longest runs were a 15km, a 13km and a few 10kms, but most of the time while building up over the previous months I was sticking to 6/7kms. Only difference on the half is I had to eat beforehand and took some dates and raisins for a little munch on the hour mark!
Next time it would be good to do it as part of an actual event and I’m sure I’ll get under 2 hours (was just over 2 hours last week)
thegreatbelow
This was basically me in a nut shell and I just completed a half marathon distance run last weekend. Started in January, going about twice a week so a very similar timeline.
I'm sure others might have more specific advice but for me the most important thing was really focusing on keeping all those runs in the first few months at a steady pace. The easiest way for me to track that was with a wrist watch/hrm and keeping heart rate in zone 2.