The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:41:58 at Cape Town 2026 put Adrian Roberts 429th of 652 men in the Open division.
The stations carried this race: faster than 46% of the field across all eight, against 23% on the runs. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 2:30. The race faded late: the second half went 5:35 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Cape Town ran fast: the 214 athletes who also raced elsewhere this season were about 1:55 quicker here than at their other races.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 9:35Running 1 5:06v median +1:04
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Block 02 9:07Running 2 6:40v median +1:07
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Block 03 11:41Running 3 6:55v median +0:53
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Block 04 11:41Running 4 6:57v median +0:57
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Block 05 12:35Running 5 7:44v median +1:31
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Block 06 9:01Running 6 6:41v median +0:36
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Block 07 14:55Running 7 6:27v median +0:26
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Block 08 16:58Running 8 8:06v median +1:38
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 6:34
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 608
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 608 men who finished.