Find out where your last race was won and lost
Connect your race from Strava and we break it down: where you gained time, where you lost it, what you did well and the one thing to work on before your next race.
Your finish time doesn't tell you why
After a race you get a time, a position and a pace graph that goes up and down with the hills. It tells you that you slowed down. It doesn't tell you whether it was the climbs, the descents, the rough ground, too much walking late on or too long at the aid stations, or which of those is worth fixing first.
Race Breakdown answers those questions from your own data. It takes your race apart, ground by ground and hour by hour, and turns it into a plain-English verdict on what went well, where the time went and what to work on next.
One thing to work on, one thing to keep
Every breakdown starts with a takeaway: the area that cost you the most time and has something you can do about it, and the strength you should hold on to. If there is nothing worth flagging, we say so rather than inventing a weakness.
Focus on
Descending on tired legs
Your descents in the final third were 6 minutes slower than the same kind of ground early on, while your climbing held steady.
What to work on: downhill running late in long training runs, so your legs are ready for the pounding when it matters.
Keep doing
Climbing
You were quicker than your flat pace predicts on climbs between 5% and 10%, banking time on the slowest part of the course.
An illustrative example. Your own breakdown is built entirely from your data.
Every part of your race, taken apart
Behind the takeaway, each part of the race gets its own verdict, the key numbers, a chart and a note on why it matters, with the detailed tables there if you want to dig in.
Climbing
Were you strong on the climbs, or did they cost you?
Climbs are the slowest part of a hilly race, so a few percent on each one adds up to real minutes. We look at every sustained climb and how strongly you moved on it, including the steep ground where everyone hikes.
Descending
Did you take the free time on the way down?
Good descending is close to free time, but it takes confidence, technique and legs that can take the pounding. We show how your descending compared with what your pace predicts, and whether it held up late on.
Runnable ground
Did you keep running where you could have?
The flat and gentle stretches are where you should move fastest, and where tiredness shows first. We separate running from walking and show whether the walking crept up through the race.
Endurance and pacing
Did you fade, and if so, when and why?
Everyone slows over a long race. We compare the later parts of your run with your own form on the same kind of ground early on, and read your heart rate alongside to tell tired legs apart from running low on energy.
Terrain and footing
Which surfaces slowed you down?
Road, track, trail, grass and more, matched from mapped paths. Each surface is corrected for its own hills, so what is left is the cost of the footing itself.
| Steep down | Down | Flat | Up | Steep up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road | -0:12 | -0:08 | base | -0:30 | |
| Gravel | +0:10 | -0:05 | +0:18 | -0:22 | -0:15 |
| Trail | +1:35 | +0:40 | +0:35 | -0:48 | -0:20 |
| Grass | +0:25 | +0:52 | +0:14 | +0:30 | |
| Rocky | +2:20 | +1:10 | +0:08 | +0:45 |
Time at stops
How much time did you spend standing still?
Aid stations, kit changes and pauses add up. We count every stop over a minute and how much of your slowdown came from stopping rather than moving.
19 min
standing still
9 min
at one aid station, CP3
Illustrative charts. Your own breakdown is built entirely from your data.
Measured against you, not against faster runners
Everything is compared with your own flat pace on the same day, adjusted for how steep the ground is. So it isn't about how fast you are, it's about how well you ran the ground in front of you. A back-of-the-pack finisher and a podium runner get an equally useful breakdown.
Hiking steep ground isn't held against you
On the steepest climbs and descents almost everyone walks. We judge how strongly you moved, not whether you ran.
Walking and running kept apart
Your walking and running are each compared with their own baseline, so a planned run-walk isn't read as a collapse.
Recording gaps left out
Pauses where your watch lost the signal or jumped in height are excluded, so a glitch doesn't turn into lost minutes.
How it works
1
Create a free account
Your analysis is private to you and lives in your account.
2
Bring in your runs
Connect Strava and we import your runs with GPS and elevation. Use Garmin or COROS without Strava? Upload your activity files instead. Heart rate is optional, but it lets us say more.
3
Pick your race
Choose the race, or any run, and see the breakdown straight away. You can also combine all your runs to see the patterns across your training.