The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Manuel Marchand & Nicolas Ducouroy finished in the top 10% of the field at Bordeaux 2024, in 1:02:09 for 22nd of 353 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.
The runs carried this race: faster than 96% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 72% on the stations. A remarkably even set of stations, none more than 0:16 from the median. Time in the roxzone, 5:26, was faster than 89% of the field.
Bordeaux cost the whole field time: about 1:14 more than the average race this season, going by 235 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:23Running 1 4:42v median −0:51
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Block 02 5:13Running 2 3:58v median −0:51
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Block 03 6:51Running 3 4:00v median −1:09
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Block 04 6:52Running 4 4:04v median −1:09
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Block 05 8:32Running 5 4:15v median −1:04
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Block 06 5:28Running 6 4:05v median −1:10
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Block 07 7:23Running 7 4:04v median −1:08
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Block 08 8:10Running 8 4:09v median −1:06
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 5:26
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 347
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 347 men's teams who finished.