Brian vs Ricky

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Brian Smasal

2:09:23 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
2042nd of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Ricky Baca-Chavez

2:09:34 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
2043rd of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Brian: Houston 2026, Open Men · Ricky: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Brian and Ricky sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brian: strongest on Push (faster than 58% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 2%).Ricky: strongest on Row (faster than 41% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 5%).

See the numbers
Part Brian: faster than Ricky: faster than
Ski 26% 16%
Push 58% 37%
Pull 31% 12%
BBJ 6% 20%
Row 6% 41%
Carry 55% 17%
Lunges 13% 13%
Wall balls 22% 23%
Roxzone 2% 16%
Runs 9% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Brian Ricky
SkiErg 26% 16%
Sled push 58% 37%
Sled pull 31% 12%
Burpee broad jump 6% 20%
Row 6% 41%
Farmers carry 55% 17%
Sandbag lunges 13% 13%
Wall balls 22% 23%
Roxzone (moving) 2% 16%
Runs (8 km) 9% 5%

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

Brian · Houston 2026 · Open Men2:09:23
7:014:566:243:057:356:287:3810:008:276:018:102:127:237:529:1110:2416:43
Ricky · Houston 2026 · Open Men2:09:34
6:135:066:133:327:397:527:467:528:425:077:592:558:157:5214:4410:1611:38
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.Brian · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 1:01:49 running, 50:58 at the stations and 16:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:24).Below, Ricky · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 1:07:31 running, 50:33 at the stations and 11:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:16).

See the numbers
Part Brian · Houston 2026 · Open Men Ricky · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:01 6:13
SkiErg 4:56 5:06
Run 2 6:24 6:13
Sled push 3:05 3:32
Run 3 7:35 7:39
Sled pull 6:28 7:52
Run 4 7:38 7:46
Burpee broad jump 10:00 7:52
Run 5 8:27 8:42
Row 6:01 5:07
Run 6 8:10 7:59
Farmers carry 2:12 2:55
Run 7 7:23 8:15
Sandbag lunges 7:52 7:52
Run 8 9:11 14:44
Wall balls 10:24 10:16
Roxzone 16:43 11:38
Finish 2:09:23 2:09:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brian Ricky Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 2:09:23 2:09:34 0:11 · Brian faster
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