DUBLIN SPRING RACE 3

Key Insights

• Doubles 500 was the day's biggest field at 1,597 athletes — 35% of the race and nearly double Open 800 (805).
• Pro Doubles Men were the fastest runners of the day at a 4:28/km median pace, undercutting individual Pro Men (4:43/km) and Open 800 Men (5:08/km).
• Burpees was where the field separated: Pro Doubles Men's 2:23 median was three times faster than Open 500 Women's 7:08.
• Josh Flynn and Paul O'Brien won Doubles 800 outright in 45:07 and posted the fastest single-team times on both Lunges (1:51) and Burpees — a clean sweep on the metcon stations.
• Pro Doubles Men held pace best across the eight running laps: only 46 seconds of fade between Running 1 and Running 8, vs 71–74 seconds in Open 800 Men and Open 500 Men.

Race overview

7,648 athletes raced across seven divisions. Each Doubles entry is a team of two and each Relay entry a team of four, so the 4,495 start-line entries represented 7,648 people in total. By category, 2,302 women's entries outnumbered 1,444 men's; mixed teams added another 749. The largest age bands by entry count were 30–39 (1,134), 40–49 (1,066) and 20–29 (557).

Entries per division

Entries by gender category

Division performance — finish times

Overall finish time, split by division and gender. Columns go left-to-right from weak to elite: the 99th column is the time achieved by the top 1% of each field; the 25th column is what you'd see in the bottom quartile. Groups with fewer than five athletes are excluded.

Running — Runs 1 through 8 combined

The eight running laps add up to between 4 km (the 500 formats) and 6.4 km (the 800 formats, Pro and Relay). Pro Doubles Men ran the day's fastest median pace at 4:28/km; Open 800 Men, the largest individual field, sat at 5:08/km.

Pace fade — Running 1 vs Running 8 (median)

How much slower did athletes get over the course of the race? Lower is better.

TRY Zone

The TRY Zone is the back half of the workout. Pro Doubles Men cleared it in a median 3:31 — 90 seconds clear of the largest division (Doubles 800 Men, 4:34). At the other end, Open 500 Men's 5:55 median was the slowest of any large group.

Workout stations

Median time on each of the eight workout stations. Pick a division below; bars are grouped by gender within each station, and the chart scales to that division. The most interesting feature is which stations flip the gender order: women were faster than men on Ramfit Thrusters, Lunges and Sled Push in every individual Open division — switch between Open 500 and Open 800 to see the pattern hold.

Fastest single time per station

Sprint finish

The Running Finish Sprint clocks the last few metres into the line. Median was 12 seconds; 90% of athletes were under 16. The fastest finisher hit the mat in 7 seconds — somebody who'd saved more than they thought they had.

Key takeaways

• The Tryka format rewards teamwork on the metcons. Pro Doubles Men were faster than individual Pro Men on Burpees by over a minute, on Lunges by 100 seconds, and on Sled Push despite carrying the heavier doubles sled.
• Lunges and Thrusters are where the standards flip: women were faster than men in individual Open 500 and Open 800 on both stations. Sled Push too — Open 500 Women beat Open 500 Men by 29 seconds on the median push.
• Pacing held best among elite doubles and decayed worst in Open Men's fields. Open 500 Men slowed by 74 seconds between Run 1 and Run 8 — Pro Doubles Men lost only 46.
• Pro and Doubles 800 Men's 99th-percentile finishes (48:48 and 46:04) were inside a three-minute window, even though Pro is the individual format and Doubles 800 is a team. The race's top end is more about format choice than raw talent.