The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Matt Faulkner finished in the top 10% of the field at Sydney 2025, in 1:05:55 for 103rd of 1,587 men in the Open division.
Nowhere gained more than the sandbag lunges: 1:52 on the median. Stronger after halfway: 3:06 better against the middle of the field than before it. Time in the roxzone, 6:23, was faster than 93% of the field.
Sydney gave the field time back: about 1:48 faster than the average race this season, by 951 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 7:27Running 1 3:18v median −0:38
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Block 02 5:28Running 2 3:26v median −0:49
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Block 03 7:41Running 3 3:41v median −0:52
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Block 04 8:09Running 4 3:34v median −1:01
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Block 05 8:08Running 5 3:46v median −1:00
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Block 06 5:24Running 6 3:39v median −1:00
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Block 07 7:00Running 7 3:32v median −1:08
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Block 08 10:22Running 8 4:42v median −1:48
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 6:23
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1510
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,510 men who finished.