Why your HYROX splits are not comparable between venues
HYROX is about half running. At most venues, running is 48% of the typical finish. At Berlin it is 40%, and at London ExCeL 41%, with finish times no different from anywhere else. The time has to go somewhere: it goes into the stations. Nobody had measured this before.
Every venue with 1,000+ finishers
Each dot is a venue's latest edition: typical Open Men finish across, running as a share of that finish up. Venues far below the dashed line credit running to the stations.
What the numbers say
If a venue really were "slow on the runs", its athletes would finish slower overall. They do not. The venues with the lowest run share have typical finish times right in the middle of the pack, and venues with equally fast fields (Bilbao, Málaga) show a normal run share. The only explanation left is where the timing mats sit: at some venues the run ends and the station starts a few metres apart, at others the "station" clock starts while athletes are still running in.
That matters for anyone comparing splits. A sled push at London ExCeL is not the same measurement as a sled push in Dublin. A "venue difficulty" tool built on raw splits, or a "your sled was slower than the London average" feature, would be wrong by minutes.
Is it stable?
Mostly. Across venues with two or more editions, most hold their run share within a point or two between seasons. 7 moved more than three points, Berlin by 5.7 points. So a correction has to be computed per venue and per edition, never as one number per city, and a venue that has moved is shown raw with a note until it settles.
What RoxTimes does with it
- Every venue page shows its run share and whether it moved.
- Race pages say plainly when a venue's splits will not compare cleanly.
- Athlete pages mark rows from low-run-share venues with an asterisk.
- Position-in-field numbers are unaffected: they compare athletes within the same race, where everyone was timed the same way.
Lowest run share (latest edition)
| Venue | Run share | Typical Open Men |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 40% | 1:26:03 |
| London ExCeL | 41% | 1:23:09 |
| Hong Kong | 43% | 1:36:16 |
| Shenzhen | 45% | 1:35:44 |
| Shanghai | 45% | 1:38:24 |
| Stuttgart | 46% | 1:26:59 |
| Lyon | 46% | 1:24:26 |
| Mechelen (Belgium 2025) | 46% | 1:26:09 |
| Cancún | 46% | 1:40:55 |
| Istanbul | 46% | 1:25:27 |
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