The race, in three figures
The race, in words
A top 10% finish for Melvin Root at Rotterdam 2025: 1:10:21, 37th of 600 men in the Open division.
Legs and stations told different stories: 97% of the field beaten on the runs, 77% on the stations. Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 1:23 on the median. Time in the roxzone, 5:06, was faster than 90% of the field.
Athletes who raced both Rotterdam 2025 and Amsterdam 2024 were 1:56 faster here, so this time looks a little better than it was.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:00Running 1 3:44v median −1:24
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Block 02 6:16Running 2 3:45v median −1:05
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Block 03 9:02Running 3 3:57v median −1:15
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Block 04 8:19Running 4 3:57v median −1:20
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Block 05 8:49Running 5 4:07v median −1:22
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Block 06 6:37Running 6 4:31v median −0:48
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Block 07 8:43Running 7 4:15v median −1:04
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Block 08 9:35Running 8 4:38v median −1:21
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 5:06
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 571
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 571 men who finished.