The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:27:16 at Houston 2026 put Timothy Samuel & Steffen Sowell 258th of 422 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
The runs carried this race: faster than 64% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 12% on the stations. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 2:33. A harder second half: 1:59 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Houston cost the whole field time: about 1:57 more than the average race this season, going by 503 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
-
Block 01 9:56Running 1 5:21v median −0:30
-
Block 02 7:14Running 2 5:11v median −0:10
-
Block 03 10:05Running 3 5:27v median −0:14
-
Block 04 8:57Running 4 5:15v median −0:33
-
Block 05 10:19Running 5 5:19v median −0:38
-
Block 06 7:37Running 6 5:32v median −0:13
-
Block 07 11:16Running 7 5:06v median −0:36
-
Block 08 12:24Running 8 6:02v median +0:02
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 9:37
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 418
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 418 men's teams who finished.