The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Marco Swanepoel & Christiaan Wessels finished 341st of 439 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Johannesburg 2025, in 1:38:48.
A station race more than a running one: 48% of the field beaten on the stations, against 19% on the runs. The sandbag lunges cost the most time: 1:14 slower than the median. The race faded late: the second half went 4:35 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Johannesburg cost the whole field time: about 8:12 more than the average race this season, going by 201 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:24Running 1 4:29v median +0:10
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Block 02 8:36Running 2 6:32v median +0:36
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Block 03 10:25Running 3 7:31v median +1:11
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Block 04 11:03Running 4 7:39v median +1:16
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Block 05 13:05Running 5 8:13v median +1:40
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Block 06 9:31Running 6 7:46v median +1:16
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Block 07 12:54Running 7 7:52v median +1:19
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Block 08 14:10Running 8 9:02v median +1:54
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 10:48
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 436
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 436 men's teams who finished.