The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Barbara Saidi finished 313th of 550 women in the Open division at Johannesburg 2025, in 2:00:59.
Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 2:13 on the median. If there was time left out there, it was on the sandbag lunges, 2:01 behind the median. A harder second half: 4:33 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Johannesburg cost the whole field time: about 8:37 more than the average race this season, going by 205 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 9:58Running 1 4:10v median −0:23
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Block 02 10:46Running 2 6:58v median +0:18
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Block 03 16:26Running 3 10:03v median +2:57
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Block 04 14:03Running 4 7:25v median +0:17
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Block 05 14:45Running 5 8:11v median +0:41
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Block 06 11:08Running 6 7:38v median +0:16
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Block 07 15:46Running 7 7:56v median +0:33
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Block 08 17:41Running 8 9:54v median +1:06
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 10:34
Against the middle of your field
Women · n = 544
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 544 women who finished.