DUBLIN WINTER RACE 2

Key Insights

• Doubles 800 was the day's biggest field at 1,157 athletes, edging out Doubles 500 (1,060) — a flip from the Spring race.
• Chloe Sawyer won Doubles 800 Women in 50:01 and then went on to win Open 800 Women in 54:36 — the day's standout repeat performance.
• The Murray brothers — Aran and Jared — set the fastest single-team times on both Sled Push (0:58) and Rowing (3:40), the only team to top two stations.
• Burpees in Open 500 was brutal: median 7:34 for Men and 8:04 for Women, more than three times the Doubles Pro Men median of 2:43.
• Doubles 500 Women held pace best across the eight runs — only 49 seconds of fade between Run 1 and Run 8, vs 73–78 seconds in the Open Men fields.

Race overview

6,252 athletes raced across seven divisions. Each Doubles entry is a team of two and each Relay entry a team of four, so the 3,790 start-line entries represented 6,252 people in total. By category, 1,970 women's entries outnumbered 1,309 men's; mixed teams added 511. The largest age bands by entry count were 40–49 (901), 30–39 (853) and 20–29 (378).

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 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). Doubles Pro Men ran the day's fastest median pace at 4:31/km; Open 800 Men, the largest individual field, sat at 5:04/km — narrowly faster than the Spring race.

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. Doubles Pro Men cleared it in a median 3:54 — barely two seconds slower than Relay Men (3:56), the day's two fastest groups. Open 500 Men's 6:22 median sat at the slow end of the field.

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. Watch the Open formats for the same Lunges and Thrusters flip seen in Spring — women were faster than men in both Open 500 and Open 800. The Doubles Pro chart shows where the elite gap opens up: Burpees in 2:43 for Men, 3:11 for Women, both about half the time of any Open format.

Fastest single time per station

Sprint finish

The Running Finish Sprint clocks the last few metres into the line. Median was 13 seconds, and the fastest finisher dipped under 8.

Key takeaways

• The repeat-winner story isn't just Chloe Sawyer — Grace Fitzgerald and Ellie Carmody won Doubles Pro Women here in 48:47 and went on to repeat in the Spring race.
• Burpees was the standout pain point. Doubles 500 Men medianed 3:54 and Open 500 Men ballooned to 7:34 — a four-minute swing on a single station tells you most of the story about why team formats beat individual ones.
• Lunges and Thrusters flipped the gender order again in Open formats: women medianed faster than men on both stations in Open 500 and Open 800, the same pattern that held in Spring. Sled Push too. Three stations where individual-format women consistently outpace individual-format men.
• Pacing held best among the largest doubles fields. Doubles 500 Women's 49-second fade was the day's lowest; Open 800 Men's 78 seconds was the worst. Format and pacing discipline track together.