Rob vs Nicholas

USA USA · Open Men · 4 results

Rob Shirley

1:27:56 best Open Men time · Boston 2025
694th of 1,463 place in that race · 1,463 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Nicholas Mitzel

1:37:31 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
1136th of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers

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

Rob: Boston 2025, Open Men · Nicholas: Boston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Rob and Nicholas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Rob: strongest on Push (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 31%).Nicholas: strongest on Lunges (faster than 59% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 28%).

See the numbers
Part Rob: faster than Nicholas: faster than
Ski 48% 52%
Push 89% 57%
Pull 62% 38%
BBJ 40% 28%
Row 84% 45%
Carry 56% 28%
Lunges 46% 59%
Wall balls 84% 42%
Roxzone 77% 46%
Runs 31% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Rob Nicholas
SkiErg 48% 52%
Sled push 89% 57%
Sled pull 62% 38%
Burpee broad jump 40% 28%
Row 84% 45%
Farmers carry 56% 28%
Sandbag lunges 46% 59%
Wall balls 84% 42%
Roxzone (moving) 77% 46%
Runs (8 km) 31% 33%

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

Rob · Boston 2025 · Open Men1:27:56
7:014:365:422:045:424:555:466:025:504:325:422:035:405:175:555:495:29
Nicholas · Boston 2026 · Open Men1:37:31
4:374:385:403:336:025:386:287:155:525:026:052:356:105:167:058:037:40
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.Rob · Boston 2025 · Open Men: 47:19 running, 35:18 at the stations and 5:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:02).Below, Nicholas · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 47:59 running, 41:59 at the stations and 7:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:03).

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Part Rob · Boston 2025 · Open Men Nicholas · Boston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:01 4:37
SkiErg 4:36 4:38
Run 2 5:42 5:40
Sled push 2:04 3:33
Run 3 5:42 6:02
Sled pull 4:55 5:38
Run 4 5:46 6:28
Burpee broad jump 6:02 7:15
Run 5 5:50 5:52
Row 4:32 5:02
Run 6 5:42 6:05
Farmers carry 2:03 2:35
Run 7 5:40 6:10
Sandbag lunges 5:17 5:16
Run 8 5:55 7:05
Wall balls 5:49 8:03
Roxzone 5:29 7:40
Finish 1:27:56 1:37:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Rob Nicholas Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 1:37:29 1:37:31 0:02 · Rob faster
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