Ej vs Josh

USA USA · Open Men · 4 results

Ej Michels

1:21:35 best Open Men time · Houston 2025
287th of 1,006 place in that race · 1,006 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Josh Rhoton

1:27:34 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
428th of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers

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

Ej: Houston 2025, Open Men · Josh: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJ
no split
RowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
EjJoshedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Ej and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ej: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 41%).Josh: strongest on Ski (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part Ej: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 90% 90%
Push 45% 82%
Pull 70% 55%
BBJ 92% no split
Row 41% 90%
Carry 67% 66%
Lunges 90% 59%
Wall balls 98% 32%
Roxzone 72% 13%
Runs 50% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Ej Josh
SkiErg 90% 90%
Sled push 45% 82%
Sled pull 70% 55%
Burpee broad jump 92% —
Row 41% 90%
Farmers carry 67% 66%
Sandbag lunges 90% 59%
Wall balls 98% 32%
Roxzone (moving) 72% 13%
Runs (8 km) 50% 72%

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

Ej · Houston 2025 · Open Men1:21:35
4:454:104:482:565:534:475:474:046:185:035:312:015:353:565:583:556:18
Josh · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men1:27:34
2:354:184:572:285:304:535:325:504:365:131:595:105:175:129:4214:24
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.Ej · Houston 2025 · Open Men: 44:35 running, 30:52 at the stations and 6:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (5:03).Below, Josh · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 39:59 running, 33:13 at the stations and 14:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:42).

See the numbers
Part Ej · Houston 2025 · Open Men Josh · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:45 2:35
SkiErg 4:10 4:18
Run 2 4:48 4:57
Sled push 2:56 2:28
Run 3 5:53 5:30
Sled pull 4:47 4:53
Run 4 5:47 5:32
Burpee broad jump 4:04 —
Run 5 6:18 5:50
Row 5:03 4:36
Run 6 5:31 5:13
Farmers carry 2:01 1:59
Run 7 5:35 5:10
Sandbag lunges 3:56 5:17
Run 8 5:58 5:12
Wall balls 3:55 9:42
Roxzone 6:18 14:24
Finish 1:21:35 1:27:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ej Josh Gap
Salt Lake City 2026 Open Men · 18 Sep 2026 1:27:37 1:27:34 0:03 · Josh faster
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