James vs Michael

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

James Ebert

1:32:25 best Open Men time · Dallas 2025
1138th of 2,075 place in that race · 2,075 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Michael Oliver

1:23:56 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
627th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

James: Dallas 2025, Open Men · Michael: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 25%).Michael: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 8%).

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Part James: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 52% 43%
Push 99% 67%
Pull 40% 74%
BBJ 52% 57%
Row 66% 17%
Carry 90% 8%
Lunges 53% 28%
Wall balls 93% 46%
Roxzone 38% 88%
Runs 25% 85%

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

Part by part

Part James Michael
SkiErg 52% 43%
Sled push 99% 67%
Sled pull 40% 74%
Burpee broad jump 52% 57%
Row 66% 17%
Farmers carry 90% 8%
Sandbag lunges 53% 28%
Wall balls 93% 46%
Roxzone (moving) 38% 88%
Runs (8 km) 25% 85%

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

James · Dallas 2025 · Open Men1:32:25
5:564:266:091:476:555:256:465:326:364:596:141:376:105:116:394:567:16
Michael · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:23:56
4:244:444:112:554:434:564:405:334:325:334:293:154:226:425:118:045:51
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.James · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 51:25 running, 33:52 at the stations and 7:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:32).Below, Michael · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 36:32 running, 41:42 at the stations and 5:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:04) and the shortest the sled push (2:55).

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Part James · Dallas 2025 · Open Men Michael · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:56 4:24
SkiErg 4:26 4:44
Run 2 6:09 4:11
Sled push 1:47 2:55
Run 3 6:55 4:43
Sled pull 5:25 4:56
Run 4 6:46 4:40
Burpee broad jump 5:32 5:33
Run 5 6:36 4:32
Row 4:59 5:33
Run 6 6:14 4:29
Farmers carry 1:37 3:15
Run 7 6:10 4:22
Sandbag lunges 5:11 6:42
Run 8 6:39 5:11
Wall balls 4:56 8:04
Roxzone 7:16 5:51
Finish 1:32:25 1:23:56

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Michael Gap
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 1:32:25 1:32:24 0:01 · Michael faster
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