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United Kingdom / London Excel 2025 / Individual Open · Men / Season 8 (2025/26)

Paul Sparks

GBR M 55-59 n = 2779
Finish · net time
1:28:40
+5:58 v median 1:22:42
Course −1:33 v season average ±0:09 · 3,460 athletes
Men
1830/2779
55-59
23/62
Field beaten
34%

The race, in three figures

Field beaten
46%
Runs
24%
Stations
Biggest gain
50m Sled Pull
+0:08
v median
1522/2779
Rank
Biggest loss
Wall Balls
+2:51
v median
2247/2779
Rank

The race, in words

Paul Sparks finished 1,830th of 2,779 men in the Open division at London Excel 2025, in 1:28:40.

Legs and stations told different stories: 46% of the field beaten on the runs, 24% on the stations. On the wall balls the field had the edge, by 2:51. The race faded late: the second half went 5:53 worse against the middle of the field than the first.

This was a quick course. Against their other races this season, the people who raced London Excel gained about 1:33.

Eight blocks

Bar = field beaten · tick = median

  1. Block 01 8:16
    Running 1 3:15
    v median +0:04
    1000m SkiErg 5:01
    v median +0:12
  2. Block 02 6:44
    Running 2 3:46
    v median +0:01
    50m Sled Push 2:58
    v median +0:11
  3. Block 03 8:52
    Running 3 3:57
    v median −0:02
    50m Sled Pull 4:55
    v median +0:08
  4. Block 04 9:37
    Running 4 3:58
    v median −0:03
    80m Burpee Broad Jump 5:39
    v median +0:12
  5. Block 05 9:11
    Running 5 4:06
    v median −0:02
    1000m Row 5:05
    v median +0:10
  6. Block 06 6:43
    Running 6 4:10
    v median +0:07
    200m Farmers Carry 2:33
    v median +0:32
  7. Block 07 11:50
    Running 7 4:19
    v median +0:14
    100m Sandbag Lunges 7:31
    v median +2:25
  8. Block 08 16:24
    Running 8 6:20
    v median +0:25
    Wall Balls 10:04
    v median +2:51

Roxzone, per block

Approach · Exit 11:10

B1 · 1000m SkiErg
1:10
0:04 1:06
B2 · 50m Sled Push
1:31
0:18 1:13
B3 · 50m Sled Pull
1:46
0:27 1:19
B4 · 80m Burpee Broad Jump
1:20
0:47 0:33
B5 · 1000m Row
1:36
0:54 0:42
B6 · 200m Farmers Carry
1:47
1:17 0:30
B7 · 100m Sandbag Lunges
2:01
1:32 0:29
B8 · Wall Balls
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No mats

Against the middle of your field

Men · n = 2777

A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 2,777 men who finished.

10:00 5:00 5:00 10:00 SkiErg Sled Push Sled Pull Burpee Broad Jump Row Farmers Carry Sandbag Lunges Finish Middle ↑ You ahead ↓ Field ahead 5:59
You ahead Field ahead Middle half · 25th–75th Crossed the middle · 0 Finish · 5:59 behind

Elsewhere

The board

Individual Open · Men at London Excel 2025

See this race on page 72
Source Unofficial
Event
London Excel 2025
Division
HYROX
Contest
H_LR3MS4JI110A
Measured against
Men · n = 2779