The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Paul Smart finished 598th of 649 men in the Open division at Manchester 2023, in 2:00:31.
A station race more than a running one: 35% of the field beaten on the stations, against 2% on the runs. The sandbag lunges were where this race was made, 0:39 ahead of the median. If there was time left out there, it was on the burpee broad jumps, 2:52 behind the median.
Manchester cost the whole field time: about 3:09 more than the average race this season, going by 373 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 11:50Running 1 7:21v median +1:18
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Block 02 9:40Running 2 6:29v median +1:19
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Block 03 15:33Running 3 9:15v median +3:34
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Block 04 17:59Running 4 9:06v median +3:26
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Block 05 15:25Running 5 10:13v median +4:26
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Block 06 11:02Running 6 8:56v median +3:12
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Block 07 13:51Running 7 9:07v median +3:23
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Block 08 17:26Running 8 11:12v median +4:37
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:55
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 625
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 625 men who finished.