Jess vs Mel

GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Jess Holohan

1:38:19 best Open Women time · Manchester 2024
206th of 284 place in that race · 284 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 5 results

Mel Norris

1:37:08 best Open Women time · Cardiff 2025
687th of 987 place in that race · 987 Open Women finishers

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

Jess: Manchester 2024, Open Women · Mel: Cardiff 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Jess and Mel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jess: strongest on Ski (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 12%).Mel: strongest on Lunges (faster than 58% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 8%).

See the numbers
Part Jess: faster than Mel: faster than
Ski 69% 47%
Push 65% 10%
Pull 43% 29%
BBJ 17% 51%
Row 67% 19%
Carry 68% 8%
Lunges 12% 58%
Wall balls 44% 43%
Roxzone 38% 35%
Runs 26% 27%

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

Part by part

Part Jess Mel
SkiErg 69% 47%
Sled push 65% 10%
Sled pull 43% 29%
Burpee broad jump 17% 51%
Row 67% 19%
Farmers carry 68% 8%
Sandbag lunges 12% 58%
Wall balls 44% 43%
Roxzone (moving) 38% 35%
Runs (8 km) 26% 27%

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

Jess · Manchester 2024 · Open Women1:38:19
4:274:506:002:176:305:336:368:436:355:056:341:596:336:517:026:316:21
Mel · Cardiff 2025 · Open Women1:37:08
5:545:175:423:335:426:086:097:016:125:515:593:076:104:307:246:226:07
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.Jess · Manchester 2024 · Open Women: 50:17 running, 41:49 at the stations and 6:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:43).Below, Mel · Cardiff 2025 · Open Women: 49:12 running, 41:49 at the stations and 6:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:01).

See the numbers
Part Jess · Manchester 2024 · Open Women Mel · Cardiff 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 4:27 5:54
SkiErg 4:50 5:17
Run 2 6:00 5:42
Sled push 2:17 3:33
Run 3 6:30 5:42
Sled pull 5:33 6:08
Run 4 6:36 6:09
Burpee broad jump 8:43 7:01
Run 5 6:35 6:12
Row 5:05 5:51
Run 6 6:34 5:59
Farmers carry 1:59 3:07
Run 7 6:33 6:10
Sandbag lunges 6:51 4:30
Run 8 7:02 7:24
Wall balls 6:31 6:22
Roxzone 6:21 6:07
Finish 1:38:19 1:37:08

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Jess Mel Gap
Manchester 2024 Open Women · 9 Nov 2024 1:38:19 1:38:16 0:03 · Mel faster
Birmingham 2024 Open Women · 25 Oct 2024 1:40:10 1:46:46 6:36 · Jess faster
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