The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:36:46 at Cape Town 2025 put Tshele Letuka & Kabelo Makhaya 407th of 477 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
The stations carried this race: faster than 41% of the field across all eight, against 16% on the runs. The race faded late: the second half went 7:14 worse against the middle of the field than the first. 11:15 in the roxzone was slower than 95% of the field.
Cape Town cost the whole field time: about 4:17 more than the average race this season, going by 227 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:22Running 1 4:09v median +0:10
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Block 02 7:47Running 2 6:00v median +0:27
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Block 03 9:44Running 3 6:53v median +0:56
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Block 04 11:05Running 4 7:35v median +1:35
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Block 05 13:16Running 5 8:26v median +2:13
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Block 06 9:28Running 6 7:58v median +1:57
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Block 07 10:58Running 7 7:24v median +1:24
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Block 08 14:58Running 8 9:35v median +3:12
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 11:15
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.