Mark vs Sam

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Mark Bland

1:27:20 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
1437th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 6 results

Sam Heairfield

1:15:19 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
695th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Sam: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on Ski (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 16%).Sam: strongest on BBJ (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 37%).

See the numbers
Part Mark: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 96% 44%
Push 85% 37%
Pull 84% 47%
BBJ 50% 88%
Row 90% 84%
Carry 94% 79%
Lunges 69% 72%
Wall balls 59% 65%
Roxzone 89% 87%
Runs 16% 71%

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

Part by part

Part Mark Sam
SkiErg 96% 44%
Sled push 85% 37%
Sled pull 84% 47%
Burpee broad jump 50% 88%
Row 90% 84%
Farmers carry 94% 79%
Sandbag lunges 69% 72%
Wall balls 59% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 89% 87%
Runs (8 km) 16% 71%

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

Mark · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:27:20
4:023:564:321:489:403:519:465:315:234:265:191:364:574:486:025:466:05
Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:15:19
2:344:304:252:544:334:554:413:514:374:274:521:474:274:325:145:507:18
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.Mark · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 49:41 running, 31:42 at the stations and 6:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:46).Below, Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 35:23 running, 32:46 at the stations and 7:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:50).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:02 2:34
SkiErg 3:56 4:30
Run 2 4:32 4:25
Sled push 1:48 2:54
Run 3 9:40 4:33
Sled pull 3:51 4:55
Run 4 9:46 4:41
Burpee broad jump 5:31 3:51
Run 5 5:23 4:37
Row 4:26 4:27
Run 6 5:19 4:52
Farmers carry 1:36 1:47
Run 7 4:57 4:27
Sandbag lunges 4:48 4:32
Run 8 6:02 5:14
Wall balls 5:46 5:50
Roxzone 6:05 7:18
Finish 1:27:20 1:15:19

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark Sam Gap
Melbourne 2024 Open Men · 28 Jun 2024 1:27:20 1:27:20 level
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