Derek vs Ali

RSA RSA · Open Men · 6 results

Derek Harvey

1:34:47 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
377th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Ali Ndlovu

1:50:10 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
383rd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Derek: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Ali: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Derek and Ali sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Derek: strongest on Lunges (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 32%).Ali: strongest on Pull (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 24%).

See the numbers
Part Derek: faster than Ali: faster than
Ski 67% 37%
Push 40% 40%
Pull 65% 94%
BBJ 32% 46%
Row 45% 55%
Carry 67% 85%
Lunges 79% 59%
Wall balls 53% 71%
Roxzone 75% 29%
Runs 40% 24%

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

Part by part

Part Derek Ali
SkiErg 67% 37%
Sled push 40% 40%
Sled pull 65% 94%
Burpee broad jump 32% 46%
Row 45% 55%
Farmers carry 67% 85%
Sandbag lunges 79% 59%
Wall balls 53% 71%
Roxzone (moving) 75% 29%
Runs (8 km) 40% 24%

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

Derek · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:34:47
2:524:197:583:206:534:476:457:077:065:067:141:595:114:346:087:395:55
Ali · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:50:10
7:425:006:414:116:304:086:317:116:415:046:371:538:005:3110:177:1611:07
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.Derek · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 50:07 running, 38:51 at the stations and 5:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:39).Below, Ali · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 58:59 running, 40:14 at the stations and 11:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:16).

See the numbers
Part Derek · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Ali · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:52 7:42
SkiErg 4:19 5:00
Run 2 7:58 6:41
Sled push 3:20 4:11
Run 3 6:53 6:30
Sled pull 4:47 4:08
Run 4 6:45 6:31
Burpee broad jump 7:07 7:11
Run 5 7:06 6:41
Row 5:06 5:04
Run 6 7:14 6:37
Farmers carry 1:59 1:53
Run 7 5:11 8:00
Sandbag lunges 4:34 5:31
Run 8 6:08 10:17
Wall balls 7:39 7:16
Roxzone 5:55 11:07
Finish 1:34:47 1:50:10

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Derek Ali Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:50:13 1:50:10 0:03 · Ali faster
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