Stephen vs Erik

IRL IRL · Open Men · 1 result

Stephen McCarthy

1:27:21 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2025
799th of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

Erik Valka

1:27:18 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2025
797th of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Men finishers

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

Stephen: Brisbane 2025, Open Men · Erik: Brisbane 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stephen and Erik sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stephen: strongest on Push (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 13%).Erik: strongest on Pull (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 14%).

See the numbers
Part Stephen: faster than Erik: faster than
Ski 23% 41%
Push 54% 77%
Pull 23% 80%
BBJ 47% 14%
Row 43% 53%
Carry 45% 44%
Lunges 50% 40%
Wall balls 13% 58%
Roxzone 47% 55%
Runs 50% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Stephen Erik
SkiErg 23% 41%
Sled push 54% 77%
Sled pull 23% 80%
Burpee broad jump 47% 14%
Row 43% 53%
Farmers carry 45% 44%
Sandbag lunges 50% 40%
Wall balls 13% 58%
Roxzone (moving) 47% 55%
Runs (8 km) 50% 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

Stephen · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men1:27:21
2:524:315:112:295:235:265:395:385:414:465:362:115:245:115:238:467:21
Erik · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men1:27:18
3:024:225:162:135:323:515:477:346:044:416:112:126:155:326:095:486:57
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.Stephen · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men: 41:08 running, 38:58 at the stations and 7:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:46).Below, Erik · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men: 44:16 running, 36:13 at the stations and 6:57 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:34).

See the numbers
Part Stephen · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men Erik · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:52 3:02
SkiErg 4:31 4:22
Run 2 5:11 5:16
Sled push 2:29 2:13
Run 3 5:23 5:32
Sled pull 5:26 3:51
Run 4 5:39 5:47
Burpee broad jump 5:38 7:34
Run 5 5:41 6:04
Row 4:46 4:41
Run 6 5:36 6:11
Farmers carry 2:11 2:12
Run 7 5:24 6:15
Sandbag lunges 5:11 5:32
Run 8 5:23 6:09
Wall balls 8:46 5:48
Roxzone 7:21 6:57
Finish 1:27:21 1:27:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stephen Erik Gap
Brisbane 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:27:21 1:27:18 0:03 · Erik faster
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