The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:38:43 at Johannesburg 2026 put Teboho Phello & Sbusiso Mhlongo 489th of 603 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
The runs carried this race: faster than 31% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 10% on the stations. On the wall balls the field had the edge, by 2:01. A harder second half: 2:50 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Johannesburg ran slow: the 210 teams who also raced elsewhere this season were about 5:26 slower here than at their other races.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 11:52Running 1 7:14v median −0:33
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Block 02 8:14Running 2 5:08v median +0:06
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Block 03 11:23Running 3 6:00v median +0:42
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Block 04 11:45Running 4 5:58v median +0:39
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Block 05 10:09Running 5 5:16v median −0:05
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Block 06 9:15Running 6 7:19v median +1:59
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Block 07 9:09Running 7 4:57v median −0:19
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Block 08 16:58Running 8 10:15v median +2:15
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 10:05
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 593
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 593 men's teams who finished.