The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Armen Ananyan finished 300th of 406 men in the Open division at Karlsruhe 2026, in 1:42:41.
Legs and stations told different stories: 42% of the field beaten on the runs, 21% on the stations. If there was time left out there, it was on the wall balls, 6:02 behind the median. The race faded late: the second half went 3:58 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Karlsruhe cost the whole field time: about 1:02 more than the average race this season, going by 835 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 10:02Running 1 5:29v median +1:37
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Block 02 9:37Running 2 5:33v median +0:06
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Block 03 12:43Running 3 7:06v median +1:15
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Block 04 12:25Running 4 5:37v median −0:09
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Block 05 11:10Running 5 5:58v median −0:05
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Block 06 8:24Running 6 5:56v median +0:10
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Block 07 11:52Running 7 5:50v median +0:06
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Block 08 18:56Running 8 5:09v median +0:11
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 7:42
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 240
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 240 men who finished.