Alex vs Taylor

USA USA · Open Men · 4 results

Alex Valadja

1:06:03 best Open Men time · Anaheim 2024
5th of 607 place in that race · 607 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Taylor Watson

1:04:58 best Open Men time · Phoenix 2026
36th of 1,563 place in that race · 1,563 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Anaheim 2024, Open Men · Taylor: Phoenix 2026, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
AlexTayloredge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Alex and Taylor sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 88%).Taylor: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 68%).

See the numbers
Part Alex: faster than Taylor: faster than
Ski 93% 99%
Push 95% 81%
Pull 97% 98%
BBJ 96% 98%
Row 98% 99%
Carry 88% 68%
Lunges 99% 94%
Wall balls 98% 97%
Roxzone 99% 97%
Runs 97% 94%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Taylor
SkiErg 93% 99%
Sled push 95% 81%
Sled pull 97% 98%
Burpee broad jump 96% 98%
Row 98% 99%
Farmers carry 88% 68%
Sandbag lunges 99% 94%
Wall balls 98% 97%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 97%
Runs (8 km) 97% 94%

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

Alex · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men1:06:03
5:454:093:492:163:553:383:583:384:034:184:021:374:043:244:314:094:55
Taylor · Phoenix 2026 · Open Men1:04:58
3:503:523:592:284:073:054:093:194:244:134:251:544:203:434:354:164:28
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.Alex · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men: 34:08 running, 27:09 at the stations and 4:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:18).Below, Taylor · Phoenix 2026 · Open Men: 33:49 running, 26:51 at the stations and 4:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:16).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men Taylor · Phoenix 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:45 3:50
SkiErg 4:09 3:52
Run 2 3:49 3:59
Sled push 2:16 2:28
Run 3 3:55 4:07
Sled pull 3:38 3:05
Run 4 3:58 4:09
Burpee broad jump 3:38 3:19
Run 5 4:03 4:24
Row 4:18 4:13
Run 6 4:02 4:25
Farmers carry 1:37 1:54
Run 7 4:04 4:20
Sandbag lunges 3:24 3:43
Run 8 4:31 4:35
Wall balls 4:09 4:16
Roxzone 4:55 4:28
Finish 1:06:03 1:04:58

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Taylor Gap
Anaheim 2024 Open Men · 7 Dec 2024 1:06:03 1:06:25 0:22 · Alex faster
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