The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:24:55 at Cape Town 2025 put Matt Beswick & Sundu Mathidza 299th of 477 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
A station race more than a running one: 63% of the field beaten on the stations, against 33% on the runs. No single station decided it: every one landed within 0:10 of the median. A harder second half: 3:05 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
This was a slow day in Cape Town. Measured against their other races this season, the people who raced here lost about 4:17.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 7:42Running 1 3:53v median −0:06
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Block 02 7:37Running 2 6:06v median +0:33
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Block 03 9:33Running 3 6:28v median +0:31
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Block 04 9:27Running 4 6:24v median +0:24
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Block 05 11:38Running 5 7:00v median +0:47
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Block 06 8:30Running 6 6:57v median +0:56
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Block 07 10:09Running 7 6:43v median +0:43
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Block 08 12:32Running 8 7:52v median +1:29
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:55
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 460
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 460 men's teams who finished.