The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Silvia Viljoen took 3rd of 20 in the 50–54 age group at Cape Town 2025, in 1:22:27.
Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 2:14 on the median. The race faded late: the second half went 1:45 worse against the middle of the field than the first. Time in the roxzone, 4:47, was faster than 95% of the field.
Cape Town cost the whole field time: about 2:02 more than the average race this season, going by 203 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:27Running 1 3:34v median −0:35
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Block 02 7:34Running 2 5:03v median −1:02
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Block 03 10:23Running 3 5:13v median −1:13
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Block 04 10:09Running 4 5:14v median −1:18
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Block 05 13:36Running 5 8:25v median +1:38
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Block 06 7:21Running 6 5:08v median −1:23
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Block 07 9:38Running 7 5:06v median −1:22
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Block 08 10:40Running 8 5:29v median −1:50
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 4:47
Against the middle of your field
Women · n = 425
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 425 women who finished.