A good HYROX time is under 1:17 for Open Men and under 1:26 for Open Women, which puts you in the fastest quarter of the 274,200 Open finishers of the 2025/26 season. Half the field finishes inside 1:27 (men) and 1:36 (women), so anything quicker than that is a faster-than-median race.
In Doubles, the fastest-quarter line is 1:09 for a men’s pair, 1:20 for a women’s pair and 1:15 for a mixed pair. Pro is quicker again, with medians of 1:20 for men and 1:26 for women. For a first race, plan on the back quarter of the Open field: 1:41 to 1:57 for men and 1:50 to 2:07 for women. Results do not flag first-timers, so that band is the honest stand-in for a debut.
Where you land inside those numbers depends mostly on your running, which is a little under half of the race clock, and on whether you have trained the stations at race weight.
Key Takeaways
- A good HYROX time is under 1:17 for Open Men and under 1:26 for Open Women: the fastest quarter of 274,200 Open results from the 2025/26 season.
- The median Open Man finishes in 1:27 and the median Open Woman in 1:36. The field averages of 1:31 and 1:40 already sit in the slower half, because a long tail of slow finishes drags them back.
- A realistic first-race target is the back quarter: 1:41 to 1:57 for men and 1:50 to 2:07 for women. Results do not flag first-timers, so no first-timer average exists.
- In Doubles, the fastest quarter starts under 1:09 for men’s pairs, 1:20 for women’s pairs and 1:15 for mixed pairs. Both partners still run all 8km, so a pair finishes nowhere near half a solo time.
- Running fitness is the strongest single predictor of your finish: the median Open Man spends 41 minutes of his 1:27 running.
- Use the HYROX Finish Time Predictor to get a personalised benchmark based on your actual running pace, not a generic table.
HYROX Time Bands: Where Your Finish Puts You
Every Open finish falls into one of six bands, and each band is a real slice of the 2025/26 field rather than a round number. The table below gives the band boundaries for men and women and the share of the division you finish ahead of inside each one.
| Band | Open Men | Open Women | Finishers behind you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front of the field | under 1:10 | under 1:18 | 90% or more |
| Top quarter | 1:10 to 1:17 | 1:18 to 1:26 | 75 to 90% |
| Faster half | 1:17 to 1:27 | 1:26 to 1:36 | 50 to 75% |
| Slower half | 1:27 to 1:41 | 1:36 to 1:50 | 25 to 50% |
| Back quarter | 1:41 to 1:57 | 1:50 to 2:07 | 10 to 25% |
| Final 10% | over 1:57 | over 2:07 | under 10% |
The bands are not equal in width. The faster half is 10 minutes wide for both men and women, while the back quarter stretches to 16 minutes for men and 17 for women, so a few minutes saved near the front moves you past far more athletes than the same minutes saved at the back.
What Each Band Usually Takes
- Front of the field. Running under 5:00 per kilometre across all eight segments and executing every station efficiently at race weight.
- Top quarter. A solid running base (a sub-45 minute 10K) and station work practised at race weight, not just learnt.
- Faster half. Specific HYROX training on top of a mixed background. This is the band a good amateur with a structured block aims at.
- Slower half. The median and the field average both sit here, so finishing in this band is finishing in the middle of the division.
- Back quarter. The honest debut band. Finishing here means 8km of running and eight demanding stations completed, which is an achievement in its own right.
- Final 10%. Still a finish. The usual fix is the running base first.
Moving from the back quarter into the top quarter is almost always a running improvement story, not a strength one.
Is 1:15, 1:30 or 2:00 a Good HYROX Time?
Here is where common target times land, read straight off the bands above.
| Finish time | Open Men | Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1:00 | Far inside the fastest 10% | Far inside the fastest 10% |
| 1:15 | Top quarter | Front of the field |
| 1:20 | Faster half | Top quarter |
| 1:30 | Slower half, just behind the 1:27 median | Faster half |
| 1:40 | Slower half | Slower half, on the 1:40 field average |
| 1:45 | Back quarter | Slower half |
| 2:00 | Final 10% | Back quarter |
The same clock reads very differently by gender: a 1:30 is mid-field for an Open Man and a quick race for an Open Woman. At the extreme end, the Pro HYROX world records are 51:59 for men and 54:25 for women, both set at HYROX Warsaw in 2026. At the other end there is no clock to beat: the official HYROX Season 26/27 Singles rulebook sets no overall time limit or cut-off for finishing a race, as the HYROX rules guide covers.
Want to know which band your running fitness puts you in? The Kracey HYROX Finish Time Predictor estimates your HYROX result from your current 5K or 10K pace. It takes about 30 seconds to use and gives you a target to train towards.
HYROX Time Benchmarks by Division
The table below gives the full spread of finish times in every division, calculated from the published results of all 97 events of the 2025/26 HYROX season: 274,200 Open finishers, 50,387 Pro finishers, and 106,825 men’s, 112,236 women’s and 122,297 mixed Doubles teams. HYROX is a standardised race format with the same eight stations at every event worldwide; for full details on the race structure and official divisions, see the HYROX official site . Times are rounded to the nearest minute.
| Division | Fastest 10% | Fastest 25% | Median | 75th percentile | 90th percentile | Field average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Men | 1:10 | 1:17 | 1:27 | 1:41 | 1:57 | 1:31 |
| Open Women | 1:18 | 1:26 | 1:36 | 1:50 | 2:07 | 1:40 |
| Men’s Doubles | 1:03 | 1:09 | 1:16 | 1:25 | 1:36 | 1:19 |
| Women’s Doubles | 1:14 | 1:20 | 1:28 | 1:38 | 1:50 | 1:31 |
| Mixed Doubles | 1:08 | 1:15 | 1:23 | 1:33 | 1:45 | 1:26 |
| Pro Men | not shown | not shown | 1:20 | not shown | not shown | 1:24 |
| Pro Women | not shown | not shown | 1:26 | not shown | not shown | 1:30 |
Read across a row to place yourself. The fastest 25% column is the “good” line, the median is the exact middle of the division, and the space between the 75th and 90th percentile columns is the back quarter where a first race usually belongs.
How These Numbers Were Calculated
Quote this method alongside any figure on this page.
- Source. HYROX publishes every race result on its official results platform . These benchmarks are computed from the published results of the 2025/26 season.
- Filter. All 97 events of that season, worldwide. Finishers only: an athlete appears once, with a recorded finish time. Open singles 274,200 results, Pro singles 50,387 (34,187 men and 16,200 women), Doubles 106,825 men’s, 112,236 women’s and 122,297 mixed teams, each category counted on its own.
- Method. Median is the 50th percentile of finish times, “good” is the 25th percentile and “elite” the 10th, each taken within a single division and gender rather than pooled. Field average is the arithmetic mean. Times are rounded to the nearest minute, which is why a median and a percentile bar can land on the same figure.
- Age brackets. Every bracket shown holds at least 300 finishers. Brackets under that threshold are left out rather than estimated, which is why the women’s brackets above 64 are absent.
- Cross-check. HyroxDataLab computes over a different sample of roughly 425,000 results and agrees with these medians to about a minute.
- What it cannot tell you. Results carry no flag for a first race, so no first-timer average exists in the data and none is published here. The back quarter, 1:41 to 1:57 for men and 1:50 to 2:07 for women, is the honest stand-in for a debut expectation.
The gap between the median and the field average is the thing to notice: about 4 minutes in both Open categories and 2 to 3 minutes in Doubles, because a long tail of slow finishes pulls the average back. Finish on the average and you are already in the slower half. The Pro rows carry a median and an average only, since 34,187 men and 16,200 women raced Pro last season against 274,200 in Open, and the percentile bars are worth stating where the field is largest.
Doubles times are nowhere near half of the Singles numbers. A men’s pair finishes about 11 minutes quicker than a solo Open Man on the median, 1:16 against 1:27, and the Doubles section below shows why sharing the stations saves a pair far less time than most teams expect.
One thing worth noting about these benchmarks: HYROX self-selects for fit people. The athletes who enter a HYROX race are not a random sample of the population. They are runners, gym members, CrossFitters and functional fitness athletes who chose to sign up for a demanding event. That means the “average” HYROX time is already faster than a genuine population average would be. If you are newer to structured training, finishing the race is a strong result in itself.
What Is a Good HYROX Doubles Time?
A good HYROX Doubles time is under 1:09 for a men’s pair, under 1:20 for a women’s pair and under 1:15 for a mixed pair. Each of those is the top quarter of its own category. The median team, the one with exactly half the field ahead of it and half behind, finishes in 1:16 as a men’s pair, 1:28 as a women’s pair and 1:23 as a mixed pair.
Those figures are calculated from the published results of all 97 events of the 2025/26 HYROX season, taken within each of the three Doubles categories. HYROX publishes every one of those results on its official results platform . Times are rounded to the nearest minute.
| Where you finish | Men’s Doubles | Women’s Doubles | Mixed Doubles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fastest 10% | under 1:03 | under 1:14 | under 1:08 |
| Fastest 25% | under 1:09 | under 1:20 | under 1:15 |
| Median (50th percentile) | 1:16 | 1:28 | 1:23 |
| Field average | 1:19 | 1:31 | 1:26 |
| 75th percentile | 1:25 | 1:38 | 1:33 |
| 90th percentile | 1:36 | 1:50 | 1:45 |
Read the median row rather than the average row. The average sits 2 to 3 minutes behind the median in all three categories because a long tail of slow finishes drags it back, which is also why a team that finishes on the average is already in the slower half. Mixed is the biggest of the three categories in this sample at 122,297 teams, ahead of 112,236 women’s pairs and 106,825 men’s pairs.
Pro Doubles is faster again: a median 1:10 for men’s pairs and 1:20 for women’s pairs across 38,900 Pro teams in the same season. That is a self-selection effect rather than a training insight. Heavier sleds do not make anyone quicker, but the teams who choose them have usually raced several times already.
What a First Doubles Race Realistically Looks Like
The results do not record whether a team is racing for the first time, so there is no published first-timer average for Doubles and this guide will not invent one. What the distribution does show is where the back half of the field sits, and that is the honest place to set a debut expectation.
Between the 75th and 90th percentile you are looking at 1:25 to 1:36 for a men’s pair, 1:38 to 1:50 for a women’s pair and 1:33 to 1:45 for a mixed pair. Land at the quicker end of your band and a quarter of every team who raced that season is behind you, on your first attempt, which is a good day out by any reading.
Why Doubles Times Are Not Half of a Singles Time
The intuition is that two athletes sharing one race should finish in roughly half the time. They do not, and the reason sits in the splits rather than in the effort.
Both partners run the whole 8km. The official HYROX Season 26/27 rulebook requires it: both team members must run together for the entire 1,000m between each workout station, and a team that lets one partner run ahead takes a 1 minute penalty. Running is the one part of HYROX that cannot be divided, and it is more than half of the race clock.
The station work is the part that halves, and the numbers are stark. In the same season, the median men’s pair spent 27:00 on the eight stations against 38:24 for the median solo Open Men athlete, while their running was within half a minute of each other at 41:46 for the pair and 41:25 solo. The entire Doubles advantage is that 11 minute saving on the stations.
There is a second effect worth planning for. A pair runs slightly slower than a solo athlete, because the team moves at whichever partner is having the harder kilometre. The gap is small for men’s pairs and wider for women’s pairs, at 49:06 of running against 46:25 for a solo Open Women athlete. If you are choosing a Doubles partner, matched running fitness is worth more than a matched deadlift.
How the Work Is Actually Split
Every Doubles station is a “you go, I go” station. The rulebook names one racer the working team member and the other the resting team member at all eight, and it is explicit that during all workout stations the resting athlete must remain on their feet. There is no station where both of you work at the same time, and there is no minimum share either of you has to take. A pair is free to split the 100 wall balls 50/50, 60/40 or 100/0.
What the rulebook does police is the handover. You may not pass the SkiErg or rowing handle to each other, the kettlebells and the sandbag may be handed sideways or backwards but never forwards, and a flying wall ball transition where one of you throws while the other catches in the squat is a no rep.
The volumes are unchanged from an individual race. A Doubles team still completes 1,000m on the SkiErg, 50m of sled push, 50m of sled pull, 80m of burpee broad jumps, 1,000m of rowing, 200m of farmers carry, 100m of sandbag lunges and 100 wall balls. Two athletes share one athlete’s station workload, and then both of them run the full 8km.
The loads for the 26/27 season are set out below. Women’s Doubles Pro uses the same column as Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
| Station | Women’s Doubles | Men’s and Mixed Doubles | Men’s Doubles Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sled push (50m) | 102kg | 152kg | 202kg |
| Sled pull (50m) | 78kg | 103kg | 153kg |
| Farmers carry (200m) | 2 x 16kg | 2 x 24kg | 2 x 32kg |
| Sandbag lunges (100m) | 10kg | 20kg | 30kg |
| Wall balls (100 reps) | 4kg | 6kg | 9kg |
The middle column is the one that catches mixed teams out. Mixed Doubles races the men’s loads, so the female partner in a mixed pair pushes a 152kg sled and throws a 6kg ball rather than the 102kg and 4kg she would meet in a women’s race. Only the wall ball target height stays specific to the racer: 3.00m for men and 2.70m for women.
You can see it in the splits. The median sled push takes 1:52 for a men’s pair and 1:53 for a women’s pair, but 2:14 for a mixed pair, the slowest of the three, because a mixed team is moving the heavier sled with one partner who has probably never trained against it. The same pattern runs across the whole station block: mixed running lands almost exactly midway between the two same-sex categories at 45:26, against 41:46 and 49:06, while mixed station work at 29:48 sits much closer to the women’s 30:47 than to the men’s 27:00. If you race mixed, train the men’s loads.
Mixed Doubles Times by Age Group
Mixed is the largest Doubles category, and a team’s age group is the average age of the two partners on race day rather than the older partner’s, which the rulebook states directly. A 30-year-old racing with a 50-year-old competes in the 40 to 44 bracket.
| Age group | Median Mixed Doubles time | Teams in sample |
|---|---|---|
| 16 to 24 | 1:24 | 12,877 |
| 25 to 29 | 1:22 | 29,147 |
| 30 to 34 | 1:22 | 32,051 |
| 35 to 39 | 1:23 | 23,545 |
| 40 to 44 | 1:24 | 13,898 |
| 45 to 49 | 1:26 | 6,592 |
| 50 to 54 | 1:27 | 2,845 |
| 55 to 59 | 1:32 | 903 |
Two things stand out. The quickest bracket is not the youngest, exactly as it is in the individual field further down this page: teams averaging 25 to 34 beat teams averaging 16 to 24 by about 2 minutes. And the decline after 35 is gentle, close to a minute per five-year bracket into the mid-fifties, so a team averaging 50 sits only about 5 minutes off the fastest bracket in the whole category.
If you are still choosing between a Doubles entry and a solo one, the full guide to the HYROX divisions covers what each format asks of you, and the weights by division reference lists every load you would be training against.
HYROX Times by Age Group
Performance in HYROX, like most endurance-based events, declines gradually with age, and the decline is far gentler than most athletes expect. The table below gives the median Open finish time in each bracket across the 2025/26 season.
| Age group | Median Open Men | Median Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| 16 to 24 | 1:26 | 1:36 |
| 25 to 29 | 1:25 | 1:34 |
| 30 to 34 | 1:26 | 1:35 |
| 35 to 39 | 1:27 | 1:36 |
| 40 to 44 | 1:29 | 1:37 |
| 45 to 49 | 1:31 | 1:38 |
| 50 to 54 | 1:34 | 1:40 |
| 55 to 59 | 1:38 | 1:45 |
| 60 to 64 | 1:41 | 1:45 |
| 65 to 69 | 1:50 | too few finishers |
Two things stand out, and the first is the same effect the Mixed Doubles table shows further up the page: the quickest bracket is not the youngest. Men in the 25 to 29 bracket are a minute quicker than the 16 to 24 bracket, and women in that same bracket two minutes quicker. The second is how flat the middle of the table is. A man of 45 to 49 is only 6 minutes off the fastest bracket in the entire field and a woman of the same age only 4, which is under 4% per decade. The decline steepens after 50: the men’s median moves from 1:34 at 50 to 54 to 1:38 at 55 to 59 and 1:41 at 60 to 64. Every bracket shown holds at least 300 finishers, and the women’s brackets above 64 do not, so they are left out rather than guessed at.
Applied to an individual, that is what a man finishing in 1:20 at 25 should expect to give up: about 2 minutes by 35 and about 6 by 45, all else being equal.
A common assumption among athletes who come to HYROX in their late forties with a running and gym background is that sub-1:30 is out of reach at their age. The table says otherwise. The median Open Man aged 45 to 49 finishes in 1:31, so sub-1:30 is simply the faster half of that bracket, and specific HYROX station work alongside the running is how an athlete of that age gets into it.
The ceiling for older athletes is significantly higher than most assume. Age group categories in HYROX exist precisely because the field is deep across all decades.
How Your 5K Time Predicts Your HYROX Finish
Running accounts for a little under half of total race time for most finishers. The median Open Man spends 41 minutes of his race running and finishes in 1:27; the median Open Woman spends 46 minutes running and finishes in 1:36. That one statistic changes how you should think about HYROX training and target-setting.
If you can run 5K in 25 minutes, your eight 1km segments will take roughly 40 minutes in a race, which is within a minute of what the median Open Man covers them in. Add his median station block of 38 minutes and his 7 minute Roxzone and you land within a minute of the median finish of 1:27. Station work that has never been trained at race weight is what pushes that out past 1:41 and into the back quarter of the field.
Here is a rough guide to what your 5K time suggests about your HYROX potential with solid station training:
| 5K Time | HYROX potential (Open Men) | HYROX potential (Open Women) |
|---|---|---|
| Sub-20 min | sub-1:10 | sub-1:18 |
| 20 to 22 min | 1:10 to 1:17 | 1:18 to 1:26 |
| 22 to 25 min | 1:17 to 1:27 | 1:26 to 1:36 |
| 25 to 28 min | 1:27 to 1:41 | 1:36 to 1:50 |
| 28 to 32 min | 1:41 to 1:57 | 1:50 to 2:07 |
Every boundary in that table is a real position in the field rather than a round number: the top row is the fastest 10% of the division, the second row runs down to the fastest 25%, the third to the median, and the last two to the 75th and 90th percentile. These figures assume competent station execution at race weight. An athlete with a strong 5K time but no station training will likely underperform the table. An athlete who has drilled every station but neglected running will find the table optimistic.
The practical implication: if you want to improve your HYROX time by 10 to 15 minutes, the first question to ask is whether your running has improved. Use the Kracey Training Zone Calculator to set your heart rate zones for running and ensure you are building your aerobic base at the right intensity rather than grinding every session at the same effort.
Which Stations Cost You the Most Time?
The median Open Man spends 38:24 on the eight stations in the 2025/26 results, and the time goes wrong in a different way at each one:
| Station | Biggest risk |
|---|---|
| SkiErg (1,000m) | Going too hard and spiking heart rate for the next 3 stations |
| Sled Push (50m) | Wrong footwear, poor drive angle |
| Sled Pull (50m) | Relaxing between push and pull transition |
| Burpee Broad Jumps (80m) | Going out too fast in the first 20 metres |
| Rowing (1,000m) | Burning aerobic capacity needed for the back half |
| Farmers Carry (200m) | Grip failure, undertrained forearm endurance |
| Sandbag Lunges (100m) | Not training lunges under fatigue |
| Wall Balls (100 reps) | No break strategy, arriving already depleted |
The wall balls guide and the ski erg guide carry split targets for each goal time, so you can see what your station times should be.
Take Sophie, who has run a few 10K races and trains legs twice a week before her first HYROX in Manchester. She knows the eight stations in theory but has practised wall balls only twice, and Station 8 takes her 11 minutes, well past the 9-minute mark that says she arrived depleted. The fix is two sessions a week of wall ball sets in the second half of her training sessions, never fresh and always fatigued. Bring the same 100 reps down to 6 minutes 40 seconds and that single station takes 4 minutes 20 seconds off her total time.
If you are building your first HYROX plan and have limited time, prioritise Wall Balls, SkiErg, and Sandbag Lunges. They produce the most time savings per hour of training for Open division athletes.
How Long Should Each Part of a HYROX Take?
The table above shows what the field averages. This section answers the question athletes actually ask before a race: how long should my individual pieces take if I want to hit a particular number?
How long does a HYROX race take? Most Open division finishers complete HYROX between 1:17 and 1:57 (men) or 1:26 and 2:07 (women), which is the span from the fastest quarter to the 90th percentile. The median is 1:27 for Open Men and 1:36 for Open Women, with the field average a few minutes back at 1:31 and 1:40. The fastest 10% are inside 1:10 and 1:18.
What running pace should you hold? The median Open Man covers the 8km in 41 minutes, which is 5:08 per kilometre, and finishes in 1:27. The median Open Woman covers it in 46 minutes, 5:45 per kilometre, and finishes in 1:36. Running is a little under half of your total race time, so this is the single number that moves your finish time most. The full breakdown by goal time is in the HYROX running pace chart .
How long should the 1,000m row take? Around 4:10 for Open Men and 4:50 for Open Women. If you are chasing sub-1:30, aim for 3:50 to 4:00 (men) or 4:20 to 4:35 (women). Rowing sits at station 5, halfway through the race, so the mistake is not rowing too slowly but rowing too hard and paying for it across the back half.
How long should the 1,000m SkiErg take? Around 4:20 for Open Men and 5:05 for Open Women. This is station 1, and it is where most blow-ups begin. Hold 80 to 85% effort here even when you feel fresh.
How long should the wall balls take? Around 6:30 for Open Men and 7:30 for Open Women, both of whom throw 100 reps. Anything over 9 minutes means you arrived at station 8 depleted, and the fix is wall ball volume trained under fatigue rather than fresh.
How much time do the transitions cost? More than most athletes budget for. The Roxzone adds close to 7 minutes for a recreational finisher and under 4 for an elite, which is a bigger spread than any single station.
How to Improve Your HYROX Time
If you already have a HYROX result and want to improve it, the path forward depends on where your time is going.
If your running segments are slow: Your aerobic base needs work. Dedicate one session per week to Zone 2 running (easy, conversational pace) to build your engine without accumulating fatigue. Add one interval session per week at your goal 1km race pace. Use the HYROX Pace Calculator to work out what pace you actually need per kilometre to hit your target time.
If your station times are slow: You probably trained stations fresh. In a race, you hit every station after a 1km run. The solution is transition training: run 1km at race pace, then go straight into a station exercise without resting. This is the training adaptation most athletes miss entirely, and it is the biggest differentiator between a 1:40 finisher and a 1:25 finisher with equivalent component fitness.
If you blew up in the back half: Your pacing strategy needs work. Most HYROX blow-ups start at Station 1 (SkiErg). Going too hard at the start sets your heart rate into a zone it can never fully recover from across the remaining seven stations. Target 80 to 85% effort on SkiErg, even if it feels conservative. You will bank the investment across the last three stations.
If your Wall Balls took more than 9 minutes: You need more Wall Ball volume under fatigue. Train them last in your session, not first.
Kracey, an AI HYROX coach in Telegram , integrates running, station work, and transition training into one block built around your race date and current fitness. Every session points at the time you have set, and it says so when that target stops being realistic.
FAQ
What is a respectable HYROX time?
For Open Men, anything under 1:31 is a respectable HYROX time, because that is the field average, and sub-1:17 puts you in the fastest 25% of the field. For Open Women, under 1:40 is respectable on the same reading and sub-1:26 is the equivalent top-quartile mark. “Respectable” is worth separating from “fast”: finishing your first race inside 1:57 (men) or 2:07 (women) at prescribed weights is a genuinely good result, because roughly half the difficulty of HYROX is holding technique together across eight stations you have already run 1km into.
How long should a HYROX workout take?
A full HYROX race takes most Open men between 1:17 and 1:57 and most Open women between 1:26 and 2:07. If you are simulating one in training, do not expect race pace: a full simulation in a normal gym typically runs 10 to 15 minutes slower than a race, because you lose the crowd, the carpeted sled lanes and the marshalled transitions. A better training substitute is a half simulation of four runs and four stations, which takes 40 to 55 minutes and can be repeated weekly without wrecking your recovery.
Is there a cut-off time in HYROX?
No. The official HYROX Season 26/27 Singles rulebook sets no overall time limit or cut-off for finishing a race, and the only cut-off it mentions is the qualification date for the Elite 15 division. Check your own event’s information for anything venue-specific, and see the HYROX rules guide for every standard the rulebook does set.
What is considered a good HYROX time for a beginner?
For a first-timer in the Open division, finishing between 1:41 and 1:57 (men) or 1:50 and 2:07 (women) is a solid debut, which is the back quarter of the field. Completing the race is the primary goal. A second race usually finds its time in pacing and in station work trained under fatigue, once you know what to expect.
What is the average HYROX time for Open Men and Women?
Across the 274,200 Open results of the 2025/26 season, the field average is 1:31 for Open Men and 1:40 for Open Women. The median is the better number to plan against and it is quicker at 1:27 and 1:36, because a long tail of slow finishes pulls the average back. Results do not flag first-timers, so no first-timer average is published and this guide will not invent one.
What is a good HYROX time for doubles?
A good HYROX Doubles time is under 1:09 for a men’s pair, under 1:20 for a women’s pair and under 1:15 for a mixed pair, each of which is the top quarter of its own Doubles category across the 2025/26 season. The median team comes in at 1:16 (men’s), 1:28 (women’s) and 1:23 (mixed), so anything inside those numbers already puts you in the faster half of the field.
What is the average HYROX mixed doubles time?
The average Mixed Doubles time is 1:26 and the median is 1:23, across 122,297 mixed pairs in the 2025/26 season. Mixed sits between the men’s 1:16 and the women’s 1:28, a little nearer the women’s end. Both partners run all 8km together, so the pair moves at the slower runner’s pace, and the station loads do not help either: a mixed team races the men’s weights, a 152kg sled push and a 6kg wall ball rather than the 102kg and 4kg of a women’s race.
What is a good HYROX doubles time for beginners?
Race results do not flag first-timers, so there is no published beginner average for Doubles. What the field does show is where the back half sits, and that is the fair place to plan a debut: 1:25 to 1:36 for a men’s pair, 1:38 to 1:50 for a women’s pair, 1:33 to 1:45 for a mixed pair. Finish at the quicker end of your band on a first race and a quarter of every team who raced that season is behind you.
What is the average HYROX mixed doubles time by age?
Mixed Doubles medians move very little until the mid-forties. Teams averaging 25 to 34 are quickest at 1:22, followed by 35 to 39 at 1:23, then 16 to 24 and 40 to 44 at 1:24, 45 to 49 at 1:26, 50 to 54 at 1:27 and 55 to 59 at 1:32. A team’s age group is the average age of the two partners on race day, not the older partner’s, so a 30-year-old racing with a 50-year-old competes in the 40 to 44 bracket.
Why are HYROX doubles times faster than singles times?
Because the eight stations are shared and the 8km of running is not. The rulebook requires both partners to run every 1km segment together, so a Doubles team covers exactly the same running distance as a solo athlete and the whole saving comes from the station work. In the 2025/26 results the median men’s pair spent 27:00 on the eight stations against 38:24 for the median solo Open Men athlete, while their running was within half a minute of each other. That is why a pair finishes around 11 minutes quicker than one athlete rather than in half the time.
Is a 1 hour 30 minute HYROX time good?
For Open Men, 1:30 sits just the slower side of the median of 1:27 and just inside the field average of 1:31, so it is a solidly mid-field result rather than a fast one. For Open Women, 1:30 is quick: it is well ahead of the median of 1:36 and only 4 minutes off the top-quartile mark of 1:26, which puts it in roughly the fastest third of the division. Context matters: a 1:30 in your first race is significantly more impressive than a 1:30 after five races.
Does age affect HYROX times significantly?
Modestly, yes, and by less than most athletes expect. In the 2025/26 season the median Open Man was 4 minutes slower in the 40 to 44 bracket than in the 25 to 29 bracket (1:29 against 1:25), and the median Open Woman 3 minutes (1:37 against 1:34). Dedicated training more than compensates for this. HYROX publishes every result by age group on its official results platform , so you can benchmark against your own bracket rather than the overall field.
How do I predict my HYROX finish time before my first race?
The most accurate method is to input your current 5K or 10K running pace into the Kracey HYROX Finish Time Predictor . Since running is a little under half of total race time, your running fitness gives the best single-input prediction. Add 5 to 10 minutes if your station training has been limited, or subtract 5 minutes if you have drilled all eight stations at race weight.
What HYROX time should I target for my first race?
Use your most recent 10K time as a starting point. If you run 10K in 50 to 55 minutes, a realistic first-race target for Open Men is 1:27 to 1:41, the band between the median and the 75th percentile. Add specific station training across 8 to 12 weeks and you can typically drop 10 to 15 minutes from that initial prediction. The Kracey HYROX Finish Time Predictor does this calculation for you and accounts for fatigue across the eight running segments.
Set Your Target, Then Build Around It
A good HYROX time is one that is achievable from your current fitness level with the right preparation, and then improves with each successive race. For Open Men, sub-1:27 is a strong goal for anyone with a decent running base and 10 to 12 weeks of structured training, because it puts you in the faster half of the whole division. For Open Women, sub-1:36 is the same target on the same reading.
The athletes who consistently outperform their expected times share one habit: they train for what HYROX actually is. Not running plus gym. Running into gym, without rest, eight times. That transition training is where most time gains come from for athletes who have been training each component in isolation.
If you want to know exactly where you stand and what time you are capable of, start with the HYROX Finish Time Predictor . Input your running pace and your target division. The predictor gives you a realistic race time based on your current fitness.
Then, when you are ready to build toward it, get coached in Telegram . Kracey periodises your running development, station work and race-specific preparation backwards from your race date, and checks that your target splits reconcile before it trains you against them. You arrive at the start line knowing your numbers, having trained in the conditions that actually matter.
Know your number. Train for it. Race it.
For race-day pacing by station, use the HYROX Pace Calculator to set a precise split target for every 1km run and every station before race day.
For a full breakdown of how to structure your training leading up to HYROX, see the HYROX Training Plan guide .