Heath vs Ariel

USA USA · Open Men · 5 results

Heath Ward

1:49:37 best Open Men time · Boston 2025
1221st of 1,463 place in that race · 1,463 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Ariel Mercado

1:41:31 best Open Men time · Atlanta 2025
552nd of 789 place in that race · 789 Open Men finishers

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

Heath: Boston 2025, Open Men · Ariel: Atlanta 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Heath and Ariel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Heath: strongest on Ski (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 3%).Ariel: strongest on Ski (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 9%).

See the numbers
Part Heath: faster than Ariel: faster than
Ski 65% 91%
Push 31% 21%
Pull 36% 58%
BBJ 17% 65%
Row 56% 42%
Carry 29% 26%
Lunges 15% 9%
Wall balls 3% 56%
Roxzone 41% 33%
Runs 25% 22%

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

Part by part

Part Heath Ariel
SkiErg 65% 91%
Sled push 31% 21%
Sled pull 36% 58%
Burpee broad jump 17% 65%
Row 56% 42%
Farmers carry 29% 26%
Sandbag lunges 15% 9%
Wall balls 3% 56%
Roxzone (moving) 41% 33%
Runs (8 km) 25% 22%

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

Heath · Boston 2025 · Open Men1:49:37
6:204:285:292:575:445:435:577:336:144:516:152:236:057:017:0018:347:12
Ariel · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men1:41:31
5:004:235:313:436:005:056:165:056:325:046:302:266:458:297:486:4610:16
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.Heath · Boston 2025 · Open Men: 49:03 running, 53:31 at the stations and 7:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (18:34).Below, Ariel · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men: 50:22 running, 41:01 at the stations and 10:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (8:29).

See the numbers
Part Heath · Boston 2025 · Open Men Ariel · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:20 5:00
SkiErg 4:28 4:23
Run 2 5:29 5:31
Sled push 2:57 3:43
Run 3 5:44 6:00
Sled pull 5:43 5:05
Run 4 5:57 6:16
Burpee broad jump 7:33 5:05
Run 5 6:14 6:32
Row 4:51 5:04
Run 6 6:15 6:30
Farmers carry 2:23 2:26
Run 7 6:05 6:45
Sandbag lunges 7:01 8:29
Run 8 7:00 7:48
Wall balls 18:34 6:46
Roxzone 7:12 10:16
Finish 1:49:37 1:41:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Heath Ariel Gap
Boston 2025 Open Men · 26 Sep 2025 1:49:37 1:49:35 0:02 · Ariel faster
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