The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Joshua Shirt finished 599th of 1,182 men in the Open division at Birmingham 2023, in 1:28:19.
A station race more than a running one: 58% of the field beaten on the stations, against 37% on the runs. If there was time left out there, it was on the sandbag lunges, 1:22 behind the median. The race faded late: the second half went 3:27 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Birmingham cost the whole field time: about 1:37 more than the average race this season, going by 823 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:18Running 1 3:54v median +0:07
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Block 02 8:53Running 2 5:13v median +0:07
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Block 03 10:11Running 3 5:54v median +0:22
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Block 04 10:23Running 4 5:48v median +0:14
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Block 05 10:39Running 5 6:06v median +0:25
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Block 06 7:49Running 6 6:03v median +0:32
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Block 07 12:29Running 7 5:55v median +0:21
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Block 08 14:00Running 8 6:56v median +0:40
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 5:44
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1180
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,180 men who finished.