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HYROX Sandbag Lunges: what is a good time and what happens on the final run?

Compare your HYROX Lunges split by category and age group. Explore Brazil and international races separately and see what happened on the next run.

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Your Lunges split does not finish telling the story when you return the sandbag. There is still a run before Wall Balls. To review this part of the race, look at the station and the next leg together, without turning a split into a diagnosis of fatigue.

In the panel above, choose the individual category, the age group published for the race and the event location. If you enter your split, the response shows where it sits within the group. You can also leave the time blank to explore the reference. We do not ask for your name or registration.

How does the Sandbag Lunges station work?

Sandbag Lunges are the seventh station in the official sequence, covering 100 metres. The 26/27 singles rulebook specifies 10 kg for Women Open, 20 kg for Men Open and Women Pro, and 30 kg for Men Pro. Athletes alternate legs, touch the rear knee to the ground and fully extend the knees and hips to finish each repetition. Check the details in the official 26/27 singles rulebook. This analysis includes earlier seasons; current rules do not retrospectively certify every race entry.

What is a good Sandbag Lunges time?

The comparison uses three descriptions: among the fastest splits, within the common band or longer than that band. A shorter time means less time spent at the station; it is not a fitness grade or a complete athlete assessment.

The typical time divides the group in half. The common band contains approximately the middle half of splits. These references describe the available sample, with its size and period disclosed; they are not universal targets for every arena.

We do not calculate an exact individual percentile or promise minutes of improvement. Ties and rounding exist. When the sample is small, the comparison shows less information or provides no interpretation.

A worked example: Men Open aged 35–39

In the Brazilian sample, this group included 568 race entries across 5 editions. The typical station time was 5:18, and the common band ran from 4:37 to 6:09.

This example describes a group without identifying a person. Enter your split to compare with the correct category and age. If your time is above the common band, the next step is to review the race context, not assume the whole difference could be recovered.

What happens on the next run?

The panel compares run 7, immediately before the station, with run 8, after it. In the example, the typical change within each race entry was 21 seconds more on the next leg.

In this group, the next run generally took longer. That does not establish that Lunges caused the change. Run 8 is the final leg and may have different routing or timing points. A comparison in seconds does not confirm distance covered or pace per kilometre.

We first calculate the difference between the two runs within each entry, then find the middle of those differences. The typical change may therefore differ from subtracting the two typical run times drawn in the bars. The share of entries with a longer next run describes the sample; it is not the probability that this will happen to you.

What to review in your own race

Recall how you reached the station, how you distributed the lunges and what happened when you left. Add video or notes if you have them. An aggregate split cannot identify pauses, movement quality or no-reps.

In the next-run panel, open the section about whether the change was the same across editions. A pattern seen in several races can still vary between arenas. For the full sequence, read the guide to pace, consistency and fatigue.

Brazil and international races: two separate comparisons

The selector refers to event location, not athlete nationality. The analysis retained 4,028 entries across 5 Brazilian editions and 171,467 across 67 international editions for this station.

The periods and participants differ. We do not silently fill a small Brazilian sample with international data or interpret a difference as one country being better. The “all ages” option explicitly expands the group and is labelled as an overview without age adjustment.

From the comparison to your full race sequence

This free comparison puts your split in the context of a group. To explore your own sequence of runs and stations, open the OUTLIER results hub, choose an available race and confirm the correct entry.

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Sources and methods

Read-only extraction on 27 October 2026, covering individual Men/Women Open and Pro. Brazil: 20 September 2025 to 18 October 2026. International: 19 July 2025 to 9 August 2026. We examined 70 international editions with previously reconciled dates; 67 had eligible entries. This is historical archive coverage, not a worldwide census.

We removed conflicting copies, results without a usable placing, known provisional-result alerts, inconsistencies and identified penalties or bonuses. We required a usable age group, eight runs and eight distinct stations, Roxzone, the exact station label and order, and a component sum within 30 seconds of the finish time. In addition to the previously identified Chiba bonus case, this review found four other entries with official bonuses, excluded from all three studies. The original database was not changed.

For this station, we checked 62 extreme splits in the official details and rankings. 55 long splits were reintroduced after verification; 5 published short splits remain excluded under the predeclared minimum analysis time of 1min30s. 2 entries were excluded for official bonuses. Confirming a published time neither certifies completion of the full distance nor establishes a timing error. No checks remain pending within this list.

We calculate empirical percentiles with interpolation within event location × sex × division × age. The unit is a race entry; the same person can appear at more than one event. With at least 50 entries across three editions, we show the full comparison. With 20 or more across two editions, only the typical time. Below that support, we do not interpret performance. These minimums are not confidence levels.

The runs are published split durations; individual leg distances were not confirmed in this analysis. Explicit official-result status fields were missing in retained records, and filtering does not certify every result. The official HYROX platform remains the source for rankings and corrections. OUTLIER provides an independent interpretation that may be updated.