Athlete · Open Men · 50-54 ·

GBR

Paul Cussell

3 HYROX results (2 solo, 1 in a team) over 2 seasons. Personal bests: Open Men 1:52:17 (Birmingham 2024) · Doubles Men 1:45:24 (Birmingham 2025).

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1:52:17 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024 also raced Doubles Men: each has its own best below

2524th of 2,732 best Open Men place · Birmingham 2024 among Open Men finishers there

1:45:24 latest race · Birmingham 2025 first Doubles Men race Doubles Men with Aidan Lindsay

Sandbag lunges strongest segment · Birmingham 2024 faster than 50% of the Open Men field on it

1 · Tap any raceEach row below opens that race's report: every split against the field, where the time went, where it can come back.

2 · Read the station profileFurther down: the shape of the race, the strongest and weakest segments, and the race as one bar against the typical finisher.

3 · Turn it into trainingEvery weak station links to its workouts on RoxHype; the app writes the eight weeks from these exact splits.

Personal bests

One best per race type

solo, doubles and relay times are different races, so each has its own best

Open Men1:52:17Birmingham 2024 · 2 races Doubles Men1:45:24Birmingham 2025 · 1 race · with Aidan Lindsay

Open Men: finish time, race by race

oldest to newest · a line going down means getting faster

1:54:001:56:001:58:002:00:002:02:002:04:00 best 1:52:17

Each dot is one Open Men race. Not enough complete, clean Open Men races yet to measure the change.

Every race

3 results

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Race	Division	Time	Place	Runs	Stations	Roxzone
Birmingham 2025 26 Oct 2025team: Paul Cussell, Aidan Lindsaywhat the whole field did →	Doubles Men · team 35-39	1:45:24	2434th of 2,466	1:04:09	32:12	9:08	splits SkiErg4:28Sled push2:46Sled pull3:57Burpee broad jump5:28Row4:47Farmers carry2:09Sandbag lunges4:09Wall balls4:28Run 18:29Run 26:49Run 36:55Run 47:31Run 58:03Run 68:09Run 78:43Run 89:34Full report for this race →
Cardiff 2025 31 May 2025what the whole field did →	Open Men · 50-54	2:05:14	1992nd of 2,041	1:06:35	50:40	7:59	splits SkiErg5:17Sled push3:36Sled pull6:14Burpee broad jump11:28Row5:26Farmers carry2:40Sandbag lunges6:22Wall balls9:37Run 17:42Run 26:49Run 37:14Run 47:10Run 57:54Run 68:31Run 78:52Run 812:23Full report for this race →
Birmingham 2024 26 Oct 2024what the whole field did →	Open Men · 45-49	1:52:17	2524th of 2,732	58:14	43:29	10:39	splits SkiErg5:02Sled push3:19Sled pull6:12Burpee broad jump8:32Row5:00Farmers carry2:13Sandbag lunges5:06Wall balls8:05Run 17:17Run 26:12Run 36:35Run 47:05Run 57:44Run 67:17Run 77:33Run 88:35Full report for this race →

Place is the position among timed finishers in the same race, division and gender; a doubles place is the team's. Runs is the organiser's official run total (it can differ from the eight laps added up by a few seconds), stations the eight stations added up, and roxzone the time moving between them. The age group is the one entered for that race; for a team it is the team’s age group. How the numbers are made.

Station profile · best Open Men race

Birmingham 2024, against 2,732 Open Men

Full race report →

Shape of the race

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns

Pauledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

Each spoke is one segment (roxzone is the time moving between stations). The further out, the bigger the share of the field beaten on it. A round shape is an even race; a dent is a weak station.

How you ranked on each segment

SkiErg faster than 5%

Sled push faster than 23%

Sled pull faster than 16%

Burpee broad jump faster than 12%

Row faster than 30%

Farmers carry faster than 41%

Sandbag lunges faster than 50%

Wall balls faster than 27%

Roxzone faster than 11%

Runs (8 km) faster than 2%

Longer is better: the share of the field this segment beat.

Minutes against the typical finisher

SkiErg 0:39 slower

Sled push 0:28 slower

Sled pull 1:19 slower

Burpee broad jump 2:41 slower

Row 0:14 slower

Farmers carry 0:07 slower

Sandbag lunges 0:01 slower

Wall balls 1:22 slower

Roxzone 3:08 slower

Runs (8 km) 17:32 slower

Green, left of centre: faster than the typical Open Men finisher at this race. Orange, right: slower, and by how much.

The race as one bar: Paul against the typical Open Men finisher

Paul1:52:17

7:175:026:123:196:356:127:058:327:445:007:172:137:335:068:358:0510:39

Typical Open Men1:24:39

5:164:234:362:514:544:534:585:515:104:465:022:065:025:055:326:437:31

RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

Left to right is the race in order: run 1, SkiErg, run 2, sled push, and so on. A block wider than the one below it is a slower segment than the typical finisher.

Roxzone cost 3:08 against the typical Open Men finisher at Birmingham 2024. The pacing guide is where that time comes back.

The RoxHype app

Fix roxzone. Then beat 1:52:17.

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Every session written for your weak station, not a generic plan
Rebuilt each week from what you actually did
Race-day pacing from your own splits

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