Joel vs Brian

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Joel Martinez

1:38:30 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1326th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Brian Taylor

1:38:32 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1327th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

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

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
JoelBrianedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Joel and Brian sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joel: strongest on Row (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 21%).Brian: strongest on Lunges (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part Joel: faster than Brian: faster than
Ski 45% 56%
Push 67% 33%
Pull 37% 20%
BBJ 60% 62%
Row 74% 58%
Carry 23% 60%
Lunges 21% 67%
Wall balls 47% 41%
Roxzone 55% 13%
Runs 32% 46%

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

Part by part

Part Joel Brian
SkiErg 45% 56%
Sled push 67% 33%
Sled pull 37% 20%
Burpee broad jump 60% 62%
Row 74% 58%
Farmers carry 23% 60%
Sandbag lunges 21% 67%
Wall balls 47% 41%
Roxzone (moving) 55% 13%
Runs (8 km) 32% 46%

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

Joel · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:38:30
4:194:434:352:556:196:146:165:256:334:456:332:436:427:107:287:587:59
Brian · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:38:32
5:274:375:083:376:447:085:265:225:354:555:342:095:214:595:588:2612:14
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.Joel · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 48:46 running, 41:54 at the stations and 7:59 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:58).Below, Brian · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 45:13 running, 41:13 at the stations and 12:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:26).

See the numbers
Part Joel · Houston 2026 · Open Men Brian · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:19 5:27
SkiErg 4:43 4:37
Run 2 4:35 5:08
Sled push 2:55 3:37
Run 3 6:19 6:44
Sled pull 6:14 7:08
Run 4 6:16 5:26
Burpee broad jump 5:25 5:22
Run 5 6:33 5:35
Row 4:45 4:55
Run 6 6:33 5:34
Farmers carry 2:43 2:09
Run 7 6:42 5:21
Sandbag lunges 7:10 4:59
Run 8 7:28 5:58
Wall balls 7:58 8:26
Roxzone 7:59 12:14
Finish 1:38:30 1:38:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joel Brian Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 1:38:30 1:38:32 0:02 · Joel faster
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