How to read a race page
Every race page shows the same kinds of numbers. Here is what each one means, in one place.
Every number comes from the results the organiser published for that race.
The words
- Typical finish
- The time of the athlete in the middle of the field: half finished faster, half slower.
- Fastest 10%
- The time one in ten athletes beat. On the charts this part of the field is green.
- Fastest 25%
- The quickest quarter of the field. Their typical splits show where a fast race is won.
- The middle half
- From the athlete a quarter of the way down the field to the one three quarters down.
- Against the season
- This race against every race of the same season, in the same division. Faster here is green, slower is red.
- Roxzone
- The time spent moving between the runs and the stations, timed separately.
- Running share
- How much of the typical finish was running. About 48% is normal; at some venues the timing mats count part of the running as station time.
- Teams
- A doubles or relay team counts once, with the team time. Every team member is listed under their own name in the search.
- Left out
- Results with impossible times (timing errors) and test entries are not in any number. They stay in the finisher tables.
The charts
- Finish times
- One curve of every finisher, fastest on the left. The higher the curve, the more athletes finished around that time. The dashed line is the typical finish.
- Where the fastest 25% made its time
- Each bar is how much faster the fastest 25% were than the typical athlete on one part of the race, biggest first.
- The race as one bar
- The race in order, left to right: runs in blue, stations in yellow, the roxzone in grey. Each block is the typical time on that part. Typical splits come from different athletes, so the blocks can add up to a little more or less than the typical finish.
- Run pace
- Minutes for each 1 km run, run 1 on the left. A line that climbs is a field slowing down. Run 1 and run 8 can read long at some venues because of where the timing mats sit; then run 2 against run 7 is the fair pacing test.
- Who raced
- How many finished in each age group, and the countries with the most athletes.
- Every edition
- One row per edition at the same venue, oldest first. A course or timing change can move the typical time.
Under every chart, a short text says what it shows, and "See the numbers" opens the numbers behind it as a table.
The data
Each race page's key facts are also plain JSON: add .json to the address, for example /races/s9/rome.json.