The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Mart Coetzee took 3rd of 120 in the 35–39 age group at Johannesburg 2026, in 1:14:16.
Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 4:14 on the median. Stronger after halfway: 2:10 better against the middle of the field than before it. Time in the roxzone, 5:11, was faster than 99% of the field.
Johannesburg cost the whole field time: about 3:14 more than the average race this season, going by 161 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 10:56Running 1 5:51v median −2:45
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Block 02 5:59Running 2 3:47v median −1:58
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Block 03 9:28Running 3 4:08v median −1:54
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Block 04 9:02Running 4 3:59v median −2:07
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Block 05 8:51Running 5 3:52v median −2:21
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Block 06 5:49Running 6 3:53v median −2:18
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Block 07 7:09Running 7 3:51v median −2:17
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Block 08 12:00Running 8 5:36v median −4:05
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 5:11
Against the middle of your field
Women · n = 627
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 627 women who finished.