The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Craig Baxter finished 789th of 1,442 men in the Open division at Birmingham 2026, in 1:27:14.
A station race more than a running one: 55% of the field beaten on the stations, against 27% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the wall balls: 1:18 on the median. If there was time left out there, it was on the sandbag lunges, 0:41 behind the median.
Birmingham gave the field time back: about 1:12 faster than the average race this season, by 2,261 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 10:21Running 1 5:46v median +0:44
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Block 02 8:44Running 2 5:10v median +0:38
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Block 03 9:41Running 3 5:13v median +0:17
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Block 04 10:37Running 4 5:22v median +0:26
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Block 05 10:12Running 5 5:24v median +0:23
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Block 06 7:52Running 6 5:26v median +0:33
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Block 07 11:27Running 7 5:39v median +0:44
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Block 08 11:30Running 8 5:41v median +0:28
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 6:59
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 883
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 883 men who finished.