How Harry Styles Ran One Hour Faster Than Average At The Tokyo Marathon

Harry Styles is built to run, and trained to run fast. His personal trainer for four years shared in an interview that his personal best in regular training is 5 minutes and 13 seconds for one mile. That is only 15 seconds slower than another client of his, professional Swiss footballer Granit Xhaka.

- MYLENE MENDOZA-DAYRIT

Pop icon and three-time Grammy winner Harry Styles last performed on his Love On Tour concert stage in Reggio, Emilia, Italy in July 2023. His fans have been missing him and begging for a new album.

While pap photos of Harry walking the streets of London, Italy, Berlin, and Japan have fed fans a look at his mundane life (which he must have missed, thus the self-imposed hiatus on this solo career), everyone was pleasantly surprised to see him run at the recent Tokyo Marathon and clock in an impressive time of three hours, 24 minutes, and seven seconds!

The average marathon time for men is four hours, 14 minutes. So, he ran 50 minutes faster than the average male marathon runner. He was reported to maintain a consistent pace of 7:47 per mile. His fastest recorded 5k split was 23:16 between the 30k and 35k. This indicates a strong endurance and pacing strategy.

Can you have such a remarkable performance without serious training and prior long-distance running experience? To compare, our very own Kim Atienza, a very fit and serious triathlete, finished the New York Marathon in three hours and 57 minutes in 2015, and the Boston Marathon in three hours, 57 minutes, and 55 seconds in 2017.

Styles Was Fit To Run

Harry Styles, even during his One Direction days, was frequently filmed running on a treadmill, boxing, or working out. He did the same when he was preparing to film Dunkirk.

According to his long-time fitness trainer Thibo David, a former special forces soldier and founder of the Executive Peak Performance system, the one-mile personal best of Harry Styles in training was five minutes and 13 seconds. Thibo trained Harry for four years, from 2018 to 2021, before his worldwide tour.