John vs Chris

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

John Sandoval

1:18:07 best Open Men time · Houston 2025
212th of 1,006 place in that race · 1,006 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Chris Desalvo

1:12:06 best Open Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
87th of 814 place in that race · 814 Open Men finishers

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

John: Houston 2025, Open Men · Chris: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where John and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.John: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 47%).Chris: strongest on Pull (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 55%).

See the numbers
Part John: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 69% 78%
Push 75% 55%
Pull 94% 96%
BBJ 81% 81%
Row 72% 91%
Carry 47% 80%
Lunges 62% 80%
Wall balls 96% 82%
Roxzone 60% 72%
Runs 71% 90%

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

Part by part

Part John Chris
SkiErg 69% 78%
Sled push 75% 55%
Sled pull 94% 96%
Burpee broad jump 81% 81%
Row 72% 91%
Farmers carry 47% 80%
Sandbag lunges 62% 80%
Wall balls 96% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 60% 72%
Runs (8 km) 71% 90%

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

John · Houston 2025 · Open Men1:18:07
4:344:234:452:284:503:415:034:395:284:395:212:165:004:575:004:126:58
Chris · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men1:12:06
3:304:154:252:514:323:234:334:214:384:254:381:454:334:224:534:556:16
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.John · Houston 2025 · Open Men: 40:01 running, 31:15 at the stations and 6:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (4:57).Below, Chris · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 35:41 running, 30:17 at the stations and 6:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:55).

See the numbers
Part John · Houston 2025 · Open Men Chris · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:34 3:30
SkiErg 4:23 4:15
Run 2 4:45 4:25
Sled push 2:28 2:51
Run 3 4:50 4:32
Sled pull 3:41 3:23
Run 4 5:03 4:33
Burpee broad jump 4:39 4:21
Run 5 5:28 4:38
Row 4:39 4:25
Run 6 5:21 4:38
Farmers carry 2:16 1:45
Run 7 5:00 4:33
Sandbag lunges 4:57 4:22
Run 8 5:00 4:53
Wall balls 4:12 4:55
Roxzone 6:58 6:16
Finish 1:18:07 1:12:06

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race John Chris Gap
Houston 2025 Open Men · 15 Mar 2025 1:18:07 1:17:58 0:09 · Chris faster
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