The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:16:06 at Manchester 2026 put Shaun Dempsey & Liam Mcalear 523rd of 794 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
The runs carried this race: faster than 56% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 12% on the stations. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 1:27. The race faded late: the second half went 1:36 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Manchester cost the whole field time: about 1:03 more than the average race this season, going by 1,189 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 7:29Running 1 3:32v median −0:02
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Block 02 6:47Running 2 4:56v median −0:05
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Block 03 8:30Running 3 5:19v median −0:01
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Block 04 9:51Running 4 5:32v median +0:09
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Block 05 10:37Running 5 5:27v median −0:04
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Block 06 7:15Running 6 5:18v median −0:11
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Block 07 10:18Running 7 5:17v median −0:14
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Block 08 9:45Running 8 4:23v median −0:06
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 5:42
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 788
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 788 men's teams who finished.