The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Mark Borges finished 242nd of 304 men in the Open division at Tampa 2026, in 1:43:14.
Nowhere gained more than the wall balls: 1:39 on the median. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 7:24. A harder second half: 6:49 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
This was a quick course. Against their other races this season, the people who raced Tampa gained about 1:00. That was 2:44 off the time at Washington DC 2026.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
-
Block 01 10:21Running 1 5:17v median +0:24
-
Block 02 9:05Running 2 5:51v median +0:51
-
Block 03 10:10Running 3 5:28v median −0:02
-
Block 04 12:15Running 4 5:38v median +0:13
-
Block 05 11:23Running 5 6:27v median +0:52
-
Block 06 9:58Running 6 7:13v median +1:49
-
Block 07 19:07Running 7 6:04v median +0:40
-
Block 08 12:54Running 8 6:45v median +1:09
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 8:10
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 300
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 300 men who finished.