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What your goal actually costs.

Pick a finish time and see the three numbers that produce it. They are internally consistent, so they add up to the goal rather than being three separate guesses.

5:30per km, average run paceAim 15 to 30 seconds slower than your standalone 5k pace.
36:10total, all 8 stationsBroken down below.
7:30total RoxZone28s per transition, sixteen of them.

Running 46 min · stations 36 min · transitions 8 min. That is your 1:30. Roughly 50/40/10.

Your station budget

This is the shape station time takes across the field, applied to your total. Use it to find where your minutes are hiding, not as a per-station target to chase.

  • SkiErg4:42
  • Sled Push4:20
  • Sled Pullgrip5:26
  • Burpee Broad Jumps5:26
  • Row4:42
  • Farmers Carrygrip2:54
  • Sandbag Lunges4:20
  • Wall Ballsgrip7:57

Your eight runs

Every run at 5:30. Not the first one faster. Going 30 seconds too hot on run 1 costs you far more than 30 seconds later, and there is no banking time in this race.

Run 15:30
Run 25:30
Run 35:30
Run 45:30
Run 55:30
Run 65:30
Run 75:30
Run 85:30

Where you actually are

Global average is about 1:35 for men and 1:50 for women. Genuine first-timers usually land 1:30 to 2:00, and the honest average for a first race is nearer 1:45. Advanced is sub 1:30 for a man or sub 1:45 for a woman, roughly the top 30%. Elite in Open 25-29 is under 1:10 for men and under 1:22 for women.

If this is your first race, pick a target from the slower end and execute it properly. A well-paced 1:45 beats a blown-up attempt at 1:20 every time, and it will teach you more.

The transition nobody trains

RoxZone is the time between finishing a run and starting a station, and back again. Elite athletes total 4 to 5 minutes across the whole race. Intermediate 7 to 9 minutes. Beginners 9 to 12 minutes or more.

Target under 40 seconds per transition. Most people lose 30 to 90 seconds a race just walking it or not knowing where their station is. It is free time, it requires no fitness, and almost nobody rehearses it.