Michael vs Marc

GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Michael Birchall

1:25:17 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
689th of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 1 result

Marc Brady

1:26:58 best Open Men time · Glasgow 2026
1507th of 2,661 place in that race · 2,661 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Manchester 2025, Open Men · Marc: Glasgow 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Marc sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Pull (faster than 59% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 20%).Marc: strongest on Push (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 8%).

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Part Michael: faster than Marc: faster than
Ski 46% 82%
Push 20% 96%
Pull 59% 72%
BBJ 36% 36%
Row 22% 51%
Carry 21% 42%
Lunges 58% 66%
Wall balls 41% 8%
Roxzone 44% 22%
Runs 43% 61%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Marc
SkiErg 46% 82%
Sled push 20% 96%
Sled pull 59% 72%
Burpee broad jump 36% 36%
Row 22% 51%
Farmers carry 21% 42%
Sandbag lunges 58% 66%
Wall balls 41% 8%
Roxzone (moving) 44% 22%
Runs (8 km) 43% 61%

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

Michael · Manchester 2025 · Open Men1:25:17
3:274:205:003:095:214:175:275:485:484:585:272:355:324:465:317:026:48
Marc · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men1:26:58
4:304:174:372:065:173:494:586:115:094:555:262:174:514:445:1112:216:28
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.Michael · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 41:33 running, 36:55 at the stations and 6:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:02).Below, Marc · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men: 39:59 running, 40:40 at the stations and 6:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:21) and the shortest the sled push (2:06).

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Part Michael · Manchester 2025 · Open Men Marc · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:27 4:30
SkiErg 4:20 4:17
Run 2 5:00 4:37
Sled push 3:09 2:06
Run 3 5:21 5:17
Sled pull 4:17 3:49
Run 4 5:27 4:58
Burpee broad jump 5:48 6:11
Run 5 5:48 5:09
Row 4:58 4:55
Run 6 5:27 5:26
Farmers carry 2:35 2:17
Run 7 5:32 4:51
Sandbag lunges 4:46 4:44
Run 8 5:31 5:11
Wall balls 7:02 12:21
Roxzone 6:48 6:28
Finish 1:25:17 1:26:58

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Marc Gap
Glasgow 2026 Open Men · 11 Mar 2026 1:26:59 1:26:58 0:01 · Marc faster
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