The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Karl Sneddon & Ian Ormshaw finished 875th of 1,099 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Birmingham 2025, in 1:21:38.
The runs carried this race: faster than 40% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 7% on the stations. If there was time left out there, it was on the wall balls, 1:56 behind the median. A harder second half: 6:14 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
Birmingham gave the field time back: about 1:50 faster than the average race this season, by 1,853 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 7:56Running 1 3:39v median −1:37
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Block 02 4:52Running 2 2:28v median −2:04
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Block 03 13:07Running 3 9:32v median +4:42
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Block 04 7:24Running 4 2:29v median −2:23
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Block 05 10:32Running 5 5:28v median +0:27
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Block 06 7:25Running 6 5:42v median +0:48
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Block 07 10:36Running 7 5:46v median +0:52
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Block 08 12:35Running 8 6:20v median +1:25
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:20
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1097
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,097 men's teams who finished.