The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Thaakier Snyders & Roche Gerbach finished 193rd of 291 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Cape Town 1 2026, in 1:29:15.
A station race more than a running one: 52% of the field beaten on the stations, against 29% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the sandbag lunges: 0:34 on the median. A harder second half: 3:58 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Cape Town 1 cost the whole field time: about 4:55 more than the average race this season, going by 270 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:12Running 1 4:02v median −0:05
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Block 02 7:22Running 2 5:53v median +0:03
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Block 03 10:31Running 3 6:38v median +0:30
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Block 04 10:48Running 4 6:56v median +0:50
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Block 05 12:16Running 5 7:23v median +1:07
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Block 06 9:00Running 6 7:14v median +1:05
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Block 07 10:43Running 7 7:24v median +1:10
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Block 08 13:21Running 8 8:54v median +2:26
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:11
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 281
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 281 men's teams who finished.