Katie vs Nicole

USA USA · Open Women · 2 results

Katie Schmelzer

1:21:50 best Open Women time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
116th of 599 place in that race · 599 Open Women finishers
USA USA · Open Women · 6 results

Nicole Arnold

1:22:40 best Open Women time · Chicago 2025
248th of 1,127 place in that race · 1,127 Open Women finishers

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

Katie: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Women · Nicole: Chicago 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Katie and Nicole sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Katie: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 19%).Nicole: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 22%).

See the numbers
Part Katie: faster than Nicole: faster than
Ski 69% 50%
Push 72% 30%
Pull 69% 74%
BBJ 72% 79%
Row 19% 30%
Carry 85% 22%
Lunges 75% 34%
Wall balls 90% 52%
Roxzone 62% 93%
Runs 84% 89%

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

Part by part

Part Katie Nicole
SkiErg 69% 50%
Sled push 72% 30%
Sled pull 69% 74%
Burpee broad jump 72% 79%
Row 19% 30%
Farmers carry 85% 22%
Sandbag lunges 75% 34%
Wall balls 90% 52%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 93%
Runs (8 km) 84% 89%

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

Katie · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Women1:21:50
3:464:565:102:275:164:515:255:235:305:505:211:525:124:255:234:186:53
Nicole · Chicago 2025 · Open Women1:22:40
3:465:084:532:305:054:445:035:215:115:385:032:275:185:435:436:244:51
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.Katie · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Women: 41:04 running, 34:02 at the stations and 6:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (5:50).Below, Nicole · Chicago 2025 · Open Women: 40:02 running, 37:55 at the stations and 4:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:24).

See the numbers
Part Katie · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Women Nicole · Chicago 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 3:46 3:46
SkiErg 4:56 5:08
Run 2 5:10 4:53
Sled push 2:27 2:30
Run 3 5:16 5:05
Sled pull 4:51 4:44
Run 4 5:25 5:03
Burpee broad jump 5:23 5:21
Run 5 5:30 5:11
Row 5:50 5:38
Run 6 5:21 5:03
Farmers carry 1:52 2:27
Run 7 5:12 5:18
Sandbag lunges 4:25 5:43
Run 8 5:23 5:43
Wall balls 4:18 6:24
Roxzone 6:53 4:51
Finish 1:21:50 1:22:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Katie Nicole Gap
Chicago 2025 Open Women · 14 Nov 2025 1:22:42 1:22:40 0:02 · Nicole faster
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