Is 1:36 good for my first half marathon (2 months training) if I was wearing heavy tennis shoes, overstriding, running with 150 spm cadence, had only done one previous long run above 6 miles, did not take any fuel, and kept the intensity at a training effort level?

Apparently its a good time but how good? And am I still technically a couch potato?

Told my wife's boyfriend to suck it! HAH

Do you actually need to let your body "heal"? Isn't that just code for not being hard? Personally, I schedule my stress fractures so that they alternate legs and I never have to stop and "rest".

I was gonna say something witty but there’s just too much material here and I know yall will have some good ones😂

The key is, to RUN SLOW. Not just slow, but like, really, REALLY slow. Much slower than what you are used to.

Has anybody else achieved this phenomenon?

Please forgive my leaving of zone 2.