Alex vs Hercules

RSA RSA · Pro Men · 3 results

Alex Joe Katz

1:33:26 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2025
102nd of 146 place in that race · 146 Pro Men finishers
RSA RSA · Pro Men · 2 results

Hercules Mugglestone

1:33:09 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2025
100th of 146 place in that race · 146 Pro Men finishers

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

Alex: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men · Hercules: Cape Town 2025, Pro Men

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

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

This chart shows where Alex and Hercules sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Ski (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 26%).Hercules: strongest on Pull (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 19%).

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Part Alex: faster than Hercules: faster than
Ski 91% 38%
Push 33% 48%
Pull 26% 67%
BBJ 48% 60%
Row 47% 22%
Carry 80% 28%
Lunges 60% 45%
Wall balls 67% 33%
Roxzone 42% 26%
Runs 78% 19%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Hercules
SkiErg 91% 38%
Sled push 33% 48%
Sled pull 26% 67%
Burpee broad jump 48% 60%
Row 47% 22%
Farmers carry 80% 28%
Sandbag lunges 60% 45%
Wall balls 67% 33%
Roxzone (moving) 42% 26%
Runs (8 km) 78% 19%

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 · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men1:32:22
3:224:114:593:195:376:185:386:496:075:165:422:005:485:086:267:108:38
Hercules · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men1:33:09
3:064:134:343:535:005:525:404:167:295:017:392:416:285:176:518:167:02
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 · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 43:39 running, 40:11 at the stations and 8:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:10).Below, Hercules · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men: 46:47 running, 39:29 at the stations and 7:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:16).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men Hercules · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men
Run 1 3:22 3:06
SkiErg 4:11 4:13
Run 2 4:59 4:34
Sled push 3:19 3:53
Run 3 5:37 5:00
Sled pull 6:18 5:52
Run 4 5:38 5:40
Burpee broad jump 6:49 4:16
Run 5 6:07 7:29
Row 5:16 5:01
Run 6 5:42 7:39
Farmers carry 2:00 2:41
Run 7 5:48 6:28
Sandbag lunges 5:08 5:17
Run 8 6:26 6:51
Wall balls 7:10 8:16
Roxzone 8:38 7:02
Finish 1:32:22 1:33:09

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Hercules Gap
Cape Town 2025 Pro Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:33:26 1:33:09 0:17 · Hercules faster
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