The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:19:04 at Mechelen 2026 put Eric De Meulenaere & Philip Meersman 603rd of 867 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
The runs carried this race: faster than 52% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 9% on the stations. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 1:29. The race faded late: the second half went 1:32 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Mechelen gave the field time back: about 1:49 faster than the average race this season, by 987 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 7:48Running 1 3:46v median −0:03
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Block 02 7:18Running 2 4:40v median −0:02
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Block 03 8:28Running 3 4:48v median −0:14
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Block 04 9:28Running 4 4:52v median −0:11
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Block 05 9:44Running 5 5:06v median −0:06
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Block 06 6:53Running 6 5:08v median +0:01
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Block 07 10:21Running 7 5:18v median +0:13
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Block 08 11:32Running 8 5:38v median +0:10
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:39
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 866
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 866 men's teams who finished.