DUBLIN SUMMER RACE 4

Key Insights

• The largest Tryka field on record: 4,872 entries and roughly 8,143 athletes — up from 3,798 at Autumn Race 1 four races ago.
• Women were the majority of the field — 2,523 entries versus 1,536 men and 811 mixed teams.
• Only three entries broke 40:00, and all three were Doubles 500 men. Adam Prunty appears in two of them.
• Sled Pull was the great separator: Open 500 women spent a median 8:08 on it — more than their entire TRY Zone — while Pro women bottomed out at 8:58 at the 25th percentile.
• Pace, not stations, defines the Pro divisions: Pro and Pro Doubles men both averaged 5:00/km across the runs, over a minute per km quicker than the Doubles 500 field.

Race overview

Seven divisions raced. Doubles dominated the entry list — the two Doubles formats accounted for 3,130 of the 4,872 entries, more than double the combined Open fields. The elite Pro and Pro Doubles divisions stayed small at 91 and 63 entries, and the Relay was a niche 26 teams — all women. The most common age band was 30–39, with a big 40–49 contingent close behind.

Entries per division (a Doubles entry = two athletes; a Relay entry = four).

Division performance

Overall-time percentiles, CrossFit-Open style: read left-to-right from the field's slower end to its sharp end. The 99th column is the time posted by the fastest 1% of each group; the 25th is a bottom-quartile day. Doubles 500 men had both the quickest elite times and the widest spread — a 39:04 at the 99th against a 1:02:20 at the 25th.

Running performance

Run totals below cover the full running distance (4 km for 500 formats, 6.4 km for 800 formats), so compare within a format, not across — the pace column is the honest cross-division measure. The Pro divisions set the standard: Pro Doubles men averaged 4:40/km and Pro men 4:46/km, while the huge Doubles 500 women's field sat at 7:12/km.

Average run pace per km, by division

TRY Zone

The TRY Zone is the back-half burn where runs and stations interleave, and it's where the elite divisions put daylight between themselves and everyone else. Pro Doubles men closed it in a median 3:58 — their fastest 10% dipped under 3:00 — against a median 6:47 for Doubles 500 women. The 800 formats consistently cleared the zone quicker than their 500 counterparts.

Workout stations

Median time on each of the eight stations, split by gender. Pick a division to see its full profile. Two patterns recur everywhere: Sled Pull is the single biggest time sink — routinely three to four times longer than the Sled Push right before it — and the Burpees gap between men and women is the widest gender split of any station. Note that Doubles crews share the reps between two athletes, so their station times run far shorter than the individual Open formats; compare formats by shape, not by raw seconds.

Sprint finish

The dash to the line ran a median of just 12 seconds. The quickest closer was the Pro Doubles pair Jack Mullane and John Fitzgerald at 0:06— proof there was still something in the tank after 6.4 km and eight stations.

Key takeaways

• Tryka's growth is relentless — the fourth Dublin race drew more than twice the athletes of the first, and Doubles is the engine, supplying nearly two-thirds of every start slot.
• The Pro divisions aren't winning on the stations — their edge is running. A flat 5:00/km average and a sub-3:00 TRY Zone are where the elite race is decided.
• If you want to find time, look at the sleds. Sled Pull alone swallowed 7–9 minutes for mid-pack athletes — more than any run segment — and it's where the field spread out most.