The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Riona Pretorius & Lynn De Achadinha finished 686th of 1,061 women's teams in the Doubles Open division at Johannesburg 2026, in 1:52:14.
A station race more than a running one: 66% of the field beaten on the stations, against 22% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the wall balls: 0:35 on the median. A harder second half: 5:29 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Johannesburg cost the whole field time: about 10:46 more than the average race this season, going by 355 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 13:40Running 1 8:49v median −0:30
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Block 02 8:48Running 2 6:51v median +0:45
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Block 03 11:33Running 3 6:54v median +0:40
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Block 04 13:19Running 4 7:49v median +1:27
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Block 05 15:00Running 5 9:06v median +2:40
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Block 06 13:22Running 6 11:32v median +5:06
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Block 07 10:08Running 7 6:19v median −0:08
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Block 08 14:52Running 8 10:19v median +0:31
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 11:39
Against the middle of your field
Women · n = 1054
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,054 women's teams who finished.