The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Steffen Mühl took 2nd of 39 in the 40–44 age group at Hannover 2020, in 1:17:45.
A station race more than a running one: 96% of the field beaten on the stations, against 75% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 2:12 on the median. The race faded late: the second half went 5:46 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Hannover cost the whole field time: about 1:43 more than the average race this season, going by 172 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 9:25Running 1 5:22v median −0:12
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Block 02 6:58Running 2 4:45v median −0:21
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Block 03 9:11Running 3 5:17v median −0:27
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Block 04 8:56Running 4 5:22v median −0:24
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Block 05 10:01Running 5 5:27v median −0:24
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Block 06 7:10Running 6 5:14v median −0:29
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Block 07 11:03Running 7 5:24v median −0:16
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Block 08 9:46Running 8 4:43v median −0:40
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 312
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 312 men who finished.