The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Andrzej Grimm & Dario Chiasserini finished 578th of 654 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at St. Gallen 2026, in 1:32:49.
A station race more than a running one: 29% of the field beaten on the stations, against 9% on the runs. The sandbag lunges were where this race was made, 1:24 ahead of the median. Paced to finish: the second half went 5:07 better against the middle of the field than the first.
St. Gallen cost the whole field time: about 1:41 more than the average race this season, going by 311 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 9:26Running 1 5:22v median −0:05
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Block 02 7:28Running 2 5:24v median +0:14
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Block 03 17:53Running 3 14:15v median +8:39
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Block 04 10:08Running 4 6:04v median +0:25
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Block 05 11:09Running 5 6:35v median +0:46
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Block 06 9:00Running 6 6:31v median +0:51
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Block 07 8:30Running 7 6:26v median +0:46
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Block 08 11:05Running 8 5:47v median +0:53
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 8:16
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 634
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 634 men's teams who finished.