Ciaran vs Mark

IRL IRL · Open Men · 3 results

Ciaran O’Brien

1:43:55 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2024
1909th of 2,198 place in that race · 2,198 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 13 results

Mark Hudson

1:42:59 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2303rd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Ciaran: Amsterdam 2024, Open Men · Mark: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ciaran and Mark sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ciaran: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 5%).Mark: strongest on Row (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 4%).

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Part Ciaran: faster than Mark: faster than
Ski 20% 43%
Push 10% 7%
Pull 14% 27%
BBJ 5% 24%
Row 7% 54%
Carry 65% 15%
Lunges 25% 4%
Wall balls 33% 30%
Roxzone 16% 42%
Runs 15% 13%

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

Part by part

Part Ciaran Mark
SkiErg 20% 43%
Sled push 10% 7%
Sled pull 14% 27%
Burpee broad jump 5% 24%
Row 7% 54%
Farmers carry 65% 15%
Sandbag lunges 25% 4%
Wall balls 33% 30%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 42%
Runs (8 km) 15% 13%

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

Ciaran · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men1:43:55
4:154:425:563:086:275:366:489:196:595:287:051:506:265:568:507:028:16
Mark · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:42:59
6:294:385:584:326:085:046:137:236:184:476:413:356:109:077:298:164:14
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.Ciaran · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men: 52:45 running, 43:01 at the stations and 8:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:19).Below, Mark · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 51:26 running, 47:22 at the stations and 4:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (9:07).

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Part Ciaran · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men Mark · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:15 6:29
SkiErg 4:42 4:38
Run 2 5:56 5:58
Sled push 3:08 4:32
Run 3 6:27 6:08
Sled pull 5:36 5:04
Run 4 6:48 6:13
Burpee broad jump 9:19 7:23
Run 5 6:59 6:18
Row 5:28 4:47
Run 6 7:05 6:41
Farmers carry 1:50 3:35
Run 7 6:26 6:10
Sandbag lunges 5:56 9:07
Run 8 8:50 7:29
Wall balls 7:02 8:16
Roxzone 8:16 4:14
Finish 1:43:55 1:42:59

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ciaran Mark Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:45:10 1:45:11 0:01 · Ciaran faster
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