Lauren vs Karen

GBR GBR · Pro Women · 11 results

Lauren Howell

1:42:10 best Pro Women time · Birmingham Birm
249th of 280 place in that race · 280 Pro Women finishers
GBR GBR · Pro Women · 4 results

Karen Hussey

1:42:07 best Pro Women time · Birmingham Birm
248th of 280 place in that race · 280 Pro Women finishers

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

Lauren: Oslo 2025, Open Women · Karen: Birmingham Birm, Pro Women

Not the same division. Lauren's race here is Open Women and Karen's is Pro Women, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

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

This chart shows where Lauren and Karen sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Lauren: strongest on Push (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 17%).Karen: strongest on Push (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 4%).

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Part Lauren: faster than Karen: faster than
Ski 49% 29%
Push 94% 68%
Pull 42% 39%
BBJ 18% 4%
Row 17% 29%
Carry 53% 30%
Lunges 34% 6%
Wall balls 52% 16%
Roxzone 68% 18%
Runs 47% 9%

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

Part by part

Part Lauren Karen
SkiErg 49% 29%
Sled push 94% 68%
Sled pull 42% 39%
Burpee broad jump 18% 4%
Row 17% 29%
Farmers carry 53% 30%
Sandbag lunges 34% 6%
Wall balls 52% 16%
Roxzone (moving) 68% 18%
Runs (8 km) 47% 9%

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

Lauren · Oslo 2025 · Open Women1:34:34
4:515:045:451:536:165:356:238:316:245:536:232:066:225:345:296:076:06
Karen · Birmingham Birm · Pro Women1:42:07
6:205:055:284:025:475:435:438:205:495:185:482:575:487:446:108:407:32
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.Lauren · Oslo 2025 · Open Women: 47:53 running, 40:43 at the stations and 6:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:31) and the shortest the sled push (1:53).Below, Karen · Birmingham Birm · Pro Women: 46:53 running, 47:49 at the stations and 7:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:40).

See the numbers
Part Lauren · Oslo 2025 · Open Women Karen · Birmingham Birm · Pro Women
Run 1 4:51 6:20
SkiErg 5:04 5:05
Run 2 5:45 5:28
Sled push 1:53 4:02
Run 3 6:16 5:47
Sled pull 5:35 5:43
Run 4 6:23 5:43
Burpee broad jump 8:31 8:20
Run 5 6:24 5:49
Row 5:53 5:18
Run 6 6:23 5:48
Farmers carry 2:06 2:57
Run 7 6:22 5:48
Sandbag lunges 5:34 7:44
Run 8 5:29 6:10
Wall balls 6:07 8:40
Roxzone 6:06 7:32
Finish 1:34:34 1:42:07

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Lauren Karen Gap
Birmingham Birm Pro Women · 30 Oct 2026 1:42:10 1:42:07 0:03 · Karen faster
London ExCeL 2025 Pro Women · 4 Dec 2025 1:56:03 1:50:44 5:19 · Karen faster
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