Mike vs Nick

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Mike Payne

1:21:38 best Open Men time · Anaheim 2024
121st of 607 place in that race · 607 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Pro Men · 2 results

Nick Ekern

1:21:39 best Open Men time · Las Vegas 2025
282nd of 1,152 place in that race · 1,152 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Mike: Anaheim 2024, Open Men · Nick: Las Vegas 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MikeNickedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Mike and Nick sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mike: strongest on Row (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 57%).Nick: strongest on Lunges (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 19%).

See the numbers
Part Mike: faster than Nick: faster than
Ski 61% 19%
Push 57% 26%
Pull 82% 32%
BBJ 74% 84%
Row 86% 39%
Carry 62% 32%
Lunges 60% 91%
Wall balls 77% 52%
Roxzone 85% 69%
Runs 77% 86%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Mike Nick
SkiErg 61% 19%
Sled push 57% 26%
Sled pull 82% 32%
Burpee broad jump 74% 84%
Row 86% 39%
Farmers carry 62% 32%
Sandbag lunges 60% 91%
Wall balls 77% 52%
Roxzone (moving) 85% 69%
Runs (8 km) 77% 86%

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

Mike · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men1:21:38
6:384:284:323:024:404:314:504:584:504:354:521:564:435:225:345:396:37
Nick · Las Vegas 2025 · Open Men1:21:39
5:104:594:273:474:555:364:524:284:435:164:292:314:263:594:196:317:11
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

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.Mike · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men: 40:39 running, 34:31 at the stations and 6:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:39).Below, Nick · Las Vegas 2025 · Open Men: 37:22 running, 37:07 at the stations and 7:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:31).

See the numbers
Part Mike · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men Nick · Las Vegas 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:38 5:10
SkiErg 4:28 4:59
Run 2 4:32 4:27
Sled push 3:02 3:47
Run 3 4:40 4:55
Sled pull 4:31 5:36
Run 4 4:50 4:52
Burpee broad jump 4:58 4:28
Run 5 4:50 4:43
Row 4:35 5:16
Run 6 4:52 4:29
Farmers carry 1:56 2:31
Run 7 4:43 4:26
Sandbag lunges 5:22 3:59
Run 8 5:34 4:19
Wall balls 5:39 6:31
Roxzone 6:37 7:11
Finish 1:21:38 1:21:39

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Nick Gap
Las Vegas 2025 Open Men · 1 Feb 2025 1:21:39 1:21:39 level
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