Here’s the mile pace you need to run at for each marathon finish time
If you want to run the world’s first sub-2-hour marathon, all you have to do is run a mile in 4 minutes and 35 seconds. Then keep that pace up for 26.2 miles.
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Alas, no one has been able to channel their inner Roger Bannister and break that barrier. (If, instead of collapsing at the finish line, Bannister had kept up that sub 4-minute mile pace, he would have finished a marathon in 1 hour, 44 minutes, and 22 seconds.) Eliud Kipchoge came agonizingly close to doing so in May when he ran a marathon in 2 hours and 25 seconds on a Formula One track.
His fellow Kenyan, Geoffrey Mutai, set the Boston record in 2011. He ran at a 4-minutes, 42-second pace and crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 3 minutes, and 2 seconds.
Here’s the marathon finish time for each pace per mile:
Pace Per Mile: Finish Time
4:30 —
1:57:54
4:35 — 2:00:00
5:00 — 2:11:06
5:30 — 2:24:12
6:00 — 2:37:19
6:30 — 2:50:25
6:52 — 3:00:00
7:00 —
3:03:32
7:30 — 3:16:38
8:00 — 3:29:45
8:30 — 3:42:52
9:00 — 3:55:58
9:10 — 4:00:00
9:30 —
4:09:05
10:00 — 4:22:11
10:30 — 4:35:18
11:00 — 4:48:24
11:27 — 5:00:00
11:30 —
5:01:31
12:00 — 5:14:37
12:30 — 5:27:44
13:00 — 5:40:51
13:30 — 5:53:57
13:44 — 6:00:00
14:00 —
6:07:04
14:30 — 6:20:10
15:00 — 6:33:17
15:30 — 6:46:06
16:00 — 6:59:12
16:02 — 7:00:00
16:30 —
7:12:18
17:00 — 7:25:24
17:30 — 7:38:30
18:00 — 7:51:36
18:19 — 8:00:00
Gallery: The Boston Marathon through the years
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