The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Paul Springmann took 3rd of 36 in the 55–59 age group at Stuttgart 2025, in 1:15:52.
Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 1:25 on the median. If there was time left out there, it was on the sandbag lunges, 0:31 behind the median. A harder second half: 3:55 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Stuttgart cost the whole field time: about 0:51 more than the average race this season, going by 810 athletes who raced both. The fastest of 2 finishes in the Open division for Paul Springmann.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:06Running 1 4:06v median −0:43
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Block 02 5:38Running 2 3:47v median −0:39
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Block 03 8:09Running 3 4:07v median −0:40
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Block 04 8:23Running 4 4:19v median −0:29
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Block 05 8:43Running 5 4:20v median −0:37
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Block 06 6:30Running 6 4:24v median −0:26
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Block 07 10:19Running 7 4:34v median −0:15
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Block 08 11:48Running 8 4:39v median −0:43
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 8:23
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1163
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,163 men who finished.