Athlete · Open Men · 40-44 ·

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Paul Shields

3 HYROX results (2 solo, 1 in a team) over 2 seasons. Personal bests: Open Men 1:40:11 (Dublin 2025) · Doubles Mixed 1:12:54 (Bilbao 2026).

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1:40:11 best Open Men time · Dublin 2025 also raced Doubles Mixed: each has its own best below

2003rd of 2,325 best Open Men place · Dublin 2025 among Open Men finishers there

1:12:54 latest race · Bilbao 2026 first Doubles Mixed race Doubles Mixed with Emma Scott Shields

Sled push strongest segment · Dublin 2025 faster than 74% 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 Men1:40:11Dublin 2025 · 2 races Doubles Mixed1:12:54Bilbao 2026 · 1 race · with Emma Scott Shields

Open Men: finish time, race by race

oldest to newest · a line going down means getting faster

1:42:001:46:001:50:001:54:00 best 1:40:11

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

Every race

3 results

tap a race for its full report

Race	Division	Time	Place	Runs	Stations	Roxzone
Bilbao 2026 6 Feb 2026team: Paul Shields, Emma Scott Shieldswhat the whole field did →	Doubles Mixed · team 35-39	1:12:54	top 35% 301/867	39:11	27:36	6:12	splits SkiErg4:25Sled push2:12Sled pull3:38Burpee broad jump3:15Row4:51Farmers carry1:38Sandbag lunges3:44Wall balls3:53Run 14:47Run 24:34Run 34:55Run 44:50Run 55:04Run 64:59Run 74:59Run 85:07Full report for this race →
Dublin 2025 13 Nov 2025what the whole field did →	Open Men · 40-44	1:40:11	2003rd of 2,325	47:38	46:32	6:05	splits SkiErg5:31Sled push2:18Sled pull4:46Burpee broad jump7:28Row5:32Farmers carry2:45Sandbag lunges6:41Wall balls11:31Run 13:56Run 26:03Run 36:12Run 46:25Run 56:55Run 66:34Run 76:42Run 84:54Full report for this race →
Cardiff 2025 31 May 2025what the whole field did →	Open Men · 35-39	1:54:33	1947th of 2,041	50:53	56:10	7:30	splits SkiErg5:15Sled push3:19Sled pull7:15Burpee broad jump9:41Row6:03Farmers carry3:19Sandbag lunges7:58Wall balls13:20Run 15:33Run 24:56Run 35:40Run 45:41Run 55:52Run 610:42Run 75:39Run 86:50Full 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

Dublin 2025, against 2,325 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 1%

Sled push faster than 74%

Sled pull faster than 43%

Burpee broad jump faster than 16%

Row faster than 7%

Farmers carry faster than 14%

Sandbag lunges faster than 16%

Wall balls faster than 12%

Roxzone faster than 21%

Runs (8 km) faster than 16%

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

Minutes against the typical finisher

SkiErg 1:03 slower

Sled push 0:17 faster

Sled pull 0:12 slower

Burpee broad jump 2:03 slower

Row 0:44 slower

Farmers carry 0:40 slower

Sandbag lunges 1:38 slower

Wall balls 4:12 slower

Roxzone 1:28 slower

Runs (8 km) 7:17 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

Paul1:40:11

3:565:316:032:186:124:466:257:286:555:326:342:456:426:414:5411:316:05

Typical Open Men1:21:02

3:064:285:082:355:294:345:315:255:424:485:342:055:355:034:037:194:37

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.

Wall balls cost 4:12 against the typical Open Men finisher at Dublin 2025. The wall balls guide shows whether that is strength or pacing, and the workouts that fix it.

The RoxHype app

Fix wall balls. Then beat 1:40:11.

The RoxHype app takes your real splits, your kit and your next race date, and builds the weeks between.

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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The RoxHype app: today's session and the race countdown