The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Haoran Xu & Bowen Zhang finished 233rd of 404 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Toronto 2026, in 1:26:47.
A station race more than a running one: 69% of the field beaten on the stations, against 25% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the sandbag lunges: 0:51 on the median. Paced to finish: the second half went 2:46 better against the middle of the field than the first.
This was a slow day in Toronto. Measured against their other races this season, the people who raced here lost about 1:53.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 10:43Running 1 6:30v median +0:16
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Block 02 8:28Running 2 6:43v median +0:50
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Block 03 10:39Running 3 7:08v median +0:54
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Block 04 11:05Running 4 7:10v median +0:57
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Block 05 11:31Running 5 7:13v median +0:46
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Block 06 9:11Running 6 7:21v median +1:02
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Block 07 10:26Running 7 7:13v median +0:57
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Block 08 10:05Running 8 6:00v median +0:37
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 4:48
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 389
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 389 men's teams who finished.