Average HYROX doubles time: mixed, men's and women's pairs

The average HYROX doubles time (strictly, the typical) is 1:23:06 for a mixed pair, 1:16:16 for a men's pair and 1:28:16 for a women's pair.

The fastest 10% of mixed pairs finish under 1:08:26, and a tenth take longer than 1:45:29. That comes from 341,938 doubles finishes. Mixed doubles, at 122,560, is the largest doubles field in the sport.

One thing to understand before you compare anything: both athletes run every kilometre, together. Only the station work is shared. So a doubles race is a full 8 km of running each, plus roughly half the station work.

That is why doubles times are only about 8 to 12 minutes faster than singles (1:27:49 Open Men, 1:36:08 Open Women), not close to half.

HYROX sets a doubles pair's age group by the two partners' average age on race day.

The age curve looks much like singles. Between 25–29 and 45–49, the typical pair slows by about 4 to 6 minutes, depending on the category.

Station-by-station splits are currently published here for Open Men and Open Women singles. The ranking below still shows where a doubles pair finds minutes, because the stations that separate the field are the same.

They simply cost each athlete roughly half as much when the reps are split. Doubles then adds three problems of its own:

• The handover. Every switch costs seconds, and pairs who have never practised switching lose more to fumbled swaps than to fitness. Agree the split pattern for every station before the start pen, and rehearse it once.
• The pace of the slower runner. You run all eight kilometres together, and running ahead of your partner is a one-minute penalty. So the pair runs at the slower athlete's pace. The faster runner's job is to keep things calm early, not to drag.
• Uneven splitting. The strongest partner on a station should take more than half the reps on that station — but only if that does not blow them up for the next run. Split by what each of you can recover from, not by fairness.

If neither of you has raced, start from the slower partner's expected singles band. Take off about 8 to 12 minutes. As a rough first doubles target, that beats averaging your two 5K times.

Then train what doubles rewards: going again straight away. In singles you get the roxzone to recover. In doubles your partner works while you stand, and then you take the bag or the ball back at pace.

Sessions of thirty to sixty second efforts with equal rest, done with your partner, are the most specific doubles training there is.

Finally, train together before race day. Plenty of pairs arrive having never done a session side by side, and it shows at the first handover. One full simulation a few weeks out tells you more than weeks of training apart.

The handover rules, and how to split each station, are in the doubles strategy guide.