Brian vs Chris

USA USA · Open Men · 4 results

Brian Schmidt

1:38:39 best Open Men time · New York 2025
1417th of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Chris Jenkins

1:39:50 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1375th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Brian: New York 2025, Open Men · Chris: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Brian and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brian: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 9%).Chris: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 53% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 17%).

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Part Brian: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 42% 17%
Push 38% 31%
Pull 9% 43%
BBJ 33% 20%
Row 49% 34%
Carry 18% 33%
Lunges 56% 29%
Wall balls 73% 34%
Roxzone 40% 53%
Runs 20% 44%

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

Part by part

Part Brian Chris
SkiErg 42% 17%
Sled push 38% 31%
Sled pull 9% 43%
Burpee broad jump 33% 20%
Row 49% 34%
Farmers carry 18% 33%
Sandbag lunges 56% 29%
Wall balls 73% 34%
Roxzone (moving) 40% 53%
Runs (8 km) 20% 44%

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

Brian · New York 2025 · Open Men1:38:39
6:184:376:372:396:335:436:276:166:404:536:322:596:345:098:405:476:22
Chris · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:39:50
5:475:045:163:435:405:575:467:515:535:135:402:295:476:376:019:038:09
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.Brian · New York 2025 · Open Men: 54:22 running, 38:03 at the stations and 6:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:16) and the shortest the sled push (2:39).Below, Chris · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 45:50 running, 45:58 at the stations and 8:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:03).

See the numbers
Part Brian · New York 2025 · Open Men Chris · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:18 5:47
SkiErg 4:37 5:04
Run 2 6:37 5:16
Sled push 2:39 3:43
Run 3 6:33 5:40
Sled pull 5:43 5:57
Run 4 6:27 5:46
Burpee broad jump 6:16 7:51
Run 5 6:40 5:53
Row 4:53 5:13
Run 6 6:32 5:40
Farmers carry 2:59 2:29
Run 7 6:34 5:47
Sandbag lunges 5:09 6:37
Run 8 8:40 6:01
Wall balls 5:47 9:03
Roxzone 6:22 8:09
Finish 1:38:39 1:39:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brian Chris Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 1:39:48 1:39:50 0:02 · Brian faster
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