Melissa vs Mara
USA · Open Women · 1 result Melissa Matos
USA · Open Women · 4 results Mara Perscheid
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Melissa: Boston 2025, Open Women · Mara: Anaheim 2024, Open Women
This chart shows where Melissa and Mara sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melissa: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 59% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 8%).Mara: strongest on Push (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 14%).
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| Part | Melissa: faster than | Mara: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 23% | 77% |
| Push | 20% | 89% |
| Pull | 8% | 69% |
| BBJ | 14% | 35% |
| Row | 36% | 75% |
| Carry | 28% | 23% |
| Lunges | 20% | 14% |
| Wall balls | 22% | 15% |
| Roxzone | 59% | 86% |
| Runs | 28% | 54% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Melissa | Mara |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 23% | 77% |
| Sled push | 20% | 89% |
| Sled pull | 8% | 69% |
| Burpee broad jump | 14% | 35% |
| Row | 36% | 75% |
| Farmers carry | 28% | 23% |
| Sandbag lunges | 20% | 14% |
| Wall balls | 22% | 15% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 59% | 86% |
| Runs (8 km) | 28% | 54% |
The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.
Those races as one bar each
This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Melissa · Boston 2025 · Open Women: 53:02 running, 51:12 at the stations and 6:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:39).Below, Mara · Anaheim 2024 · Open Women: 48:52 running, 44:13 at the stations and 6:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:54) and the shortest the sled push (2:15).
See the numbers
| Part | Melissa · Boston 2025 · Open Women | Mara · Anaheim 2024 · Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 8:21 | 7:44 |
| SkiErg | 5:38 | 4:56 |
| Run 2 | 6:26 | 5:20 |
| Sled push | 3:03 | 2:15 |
| Run 3 | 6:26 | 5:37 |
| Sled pull | 8:52 | 5:18 |
| Run 4 | 6:30 | 5:30 |
| Burpee broad jump | 9:39 | 7:46 |
| Run 5 | 6:28 | 5:49 |
| Row | 5:39 | 5:14 |
| Run 6 | 6:17 | 5:56 |
| Farmers carry | 2:25 | 2:27 |
| Run 7 | 6:09 | 5:58 |
| Sandbag lunges | 6:32 | 7:23 |
| Run 8 | 6:26 | 6:58 |
| Wall balls | 9:24 | 8:54 |
| Roxzone | 6:25 | 6:38 |
| Finish | 1:50:32 | 1:39:36 |
Head to head: 1 race they both ran
| Race | Melissa | Mara | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston 2025 Open Women · 26 Sep 2025 | 1:50:32 | 1:50:33 | 0:01 · Melissa faster |
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