The race, in three figures
The race, in words
ALEX FERNANDEZ ESTEFANÍA & Alvaro Perez del Castillo finished 879th of 1,029 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Madrid 2025, in 1:24:45.
A station race more than a running one: 57% of the field beaten on the stations, against 12% on the runs. The sandbag lunges were where this race was made, 2:56 ahead of the median. Paced to finish: the second half went 5:23 better against the middle of the field than the first.
Madrid cost the whole field time: about 1:04 more than the average race this season, going by 1,042 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 9:00Running 1 4:20v median −0:22
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Block 02 11:52Running 2 9:54v median +5:08
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Block 03 9:39Running 3 6:01v median +1:00
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Block 04 9:18Running 4 5:42v median +0:40
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Block 05 10:45Running 5 5:44v median +0:33
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Block 06 7:33Running 6 5:27v median +0:22
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Block 07 5:52Running 7 5:19v median +0:16
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Block 08 10:31Running 8 6:10v median +0:24
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 10:25
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1024
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,024 men's teams who finished.