The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Neil Willey & Antony Colouras finished 955th of 1,177 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Birmingham 2025, in 1:22:42.
The stations carried this race: faster than 45% of the field across all eight, against 12% on the runs. If there was time left out there, it was on the sandbag lunges, 0:30 behind the median. The race faded late: the second half went 1:26 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
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 10:31Running 1 6:34v median +1:08
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Block 02 7:31Running 2 5:28v median +0:54
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Block 03 9:03Running 3 5:47v median +0:55
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Block 04 8:47Running 4 5:52v median +0:58
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Block 05 11:09Running 5 6:40v median +1:38
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Block 06 7:50Running 6 6:17v median +1:22
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Block 07 9:51Running 7 5:52v median +0:57
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Block 08 10:38Running 8 5:51v median +0:57
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:29
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1177
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,177 men's teams who finished.