Michael vs Aaron

USA USA · Open Men · 6 results

Michael Kim

1:40:48 best Open Men time · New York 2025
1470th of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Aaron Schichtl

1:47:17 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1637th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: New York 2025, Open Men · Aaron: Houston 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzone
no split
Runs
no split
MichaelAaronedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Michael and Aaron sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 12%).Aaron: strongest on Push (faster than 49% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 13%).

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Part Michael: faster than Aaron: faster than
Ski 12% 13%
Push 22% 49%
Pull 35% 28%
BBJ 18% 21%
Row 24% 44%
Carry 65% 16%
Lunges 25% 43%
Wall balls 55% 29%
Roxzone no split 31%
Runs no split 24%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Aaron
SkiErg 12% 13%
Sled push 22% 49%
Sled pull 35% 28%
Burpee broad jump 18% 21%
Row 24% 44%
Farmers carry 65% 16%
Sandbag lunges 25% 43%
Wall balls 55% 29%
Roxzone (moving) — 31%
Runs (8 km) — 24%

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 · New York 2025 · Open Men1:40:48
6:095:036:003:006:114:287:155:142:096:276:40
Aaron · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:47:17
6:135:095:593:156:106:356:267:426:285:056:232:586:215:577:239:379:44
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 · New York 2025 · Open Men: 18:20 running and 40:16 at the stations; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:15).Below, Aaron · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 51:23 running, 46:18 at the stations and 9:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:37).

See the numbers
Part Michael · New York 2025 · Open Men Aaron · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:09 6:13
SkiErg 5:03 5:09
Run 2 6:00 5:59
Sled push 3:00 3:15
Run 3 6:11 6:10
Sled pull 4:28 6:35
Run 4 — 6:26
Burpee broad jump 7:15 7:42
Run 5 — 6:28
Row 5:14 5:05
Run 6 — 6:23
Farmers carry 2:09 2:58
Run 7 — 6:21
Sandbag lunges 6:27 5:57
Run 8 — 7:23
Wall balls 6:40 9:37
Roxzone — 9:44
Finish 1:40:48 1:47:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Aaron Gap
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 1:54:17 1:54:17 level
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