Gayle vs Cara

USA USA · Open Women · 1 result

Gayle Smart

1:38:58 best Open Women time · Boston 2026
806th of 1,649 place in that race · 1,649 Open Women finishers
USA USA · Open Women · 1 result

Cara Ann Alexandru

1:38:55 best Open Women time · Boston 2026
805th of 1,649 place in that race · 1,649 Open Women finishers

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

Gayle: Boston 2026, Open Women · Cara: Boston 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Gayle and Cara sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gayle: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 10%).Cara: strongest on BBJ (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 31%).

See the numbers
Part Gayle: faster than Cara: faster than
Ski 67% 42%
Push 10% 70%
Pull 55% 34%
BBJ 50% 94%
Row 70% 42%
Carry 99% 31%
Lunges 59% 71%
Wall balls 57% 81%
Roxzone 52% 46%
Runs 44% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Gayle Cara
SkiErg 67% 42%
Sled push 10% 70%
Sled pull 55% 34%
Burpee broad jump 50% 94%
Row 70% 42%
Farmers carry 99% 31%
Sandbag lunges 59% 71%
Wall balls 57% 81%
Roxzone (moving) 52% 46%
Runs (8 km) 44% 33%

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

Gayle · Boston 2026 · Open Women1:38:58
4:495:105:504:456:205:517:027:086:265:226:181:426:225:127:056:197:27
Cara · Boston 2026 · Open Women1:38:55
5:365:276:333:056:386:436:344:396:395:446:472:386:384:467:275:187:50
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.Gayle · Boston 2026 · Open Women: 50:11 running, 41:29 at the stations and 7:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:08).Below, Cara · Boston 2026 · Open Women: 52:52 running, 38:20 at the stations and 7:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:43).

See the numbers
Part Gayle · Boston 2026 · Open Women Cara · Boston 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:49 5:36
SkiErg 5:10 5:27
Run 2 5:50 6:33
Sled push 4:45 3:05
Run 3 6:20 6:38
Sled pull 5:51 6:43
Run 4 7:02 6:34
Burpee broad jump 7:08 4:39
Run 5 6:26 6:39
Row 5:22 5:44
Run 6 6:18 6:47
Farmers carry 1:42 2:38
Run 7 6:22 6:38
Sandbag lunges 5:12 4:46
Run 8 7:05 7:27
Wall balls 6:19 5:18
Roxzone 7:27 7:50
Finish 1:38:58 1:38:55

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gayle Cara Gap
Boston 2026 Open Women · 8 Oct 2026 1:38:58 1:38:55 0:03 · Cara faster
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