Merari vs Brandon

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Merari Ortega

2:28:18 best Open Men time · Dallas 2025
2029th of 2,075 place in that race · 2,075 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Brandon Johns

2:28:43 best Open Men time · Dallas 2025
2031st of 2,075 place in that race · 2,075 Open Men finishers

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

Merari: Dallas 2025, Open Men · Brandon: Dallas 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Merari and Brandon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Merari: strongest on Push (faster than 47% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 1%).Brandon: strongest on Ski (faster than 18% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Merari: faster than Brandon: faster than
Ski 5% 18%
Push 47% 2%
Pull 8% 2%
BBJ 1% 1%
Row 8% 8%
Carry 26% 1%
Lunges 1% 2%
Wall balls 11% 4%
Roxzone 3% 6%
Runs 3% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Merari Brandon
SkiErg 5% 18%
Sled push 47% 2%
Sled pull 8% 2%
Burpee broad jump 1% 1%
Row 8% 8%
Farmers carry 26% 1%
Sandbag lunges 1% 2%
Wall balls 11% 4%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 6%
Runs (8 km) 3% 4%

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

Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men2:28:18
8:305:118:092:598:177:418:5915:2710:016:118:212:268:5012:0410:1411:5313:13
Brandon · Dallas 2025 · Open Men2:28:43
6:484:497:565:168:419:169:2913:149:146:107:524:368:1710:599:4715:1911:09
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.Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 1:11:20 running, 1:03:51 at the stations and 13:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:27).Below, Brandon · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 1:08:03 running, 1:09:40 at the stations and 11:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:19).

See the numbers
Part Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men Brandon · Dallas 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 8:30 6:48
SkiErg 5:11 4:49
Run 2 8:09 7:56
Sled push 2:59 5:16
Run 3 8:17 8:41
Sled pull 7:41 9:16
Run 4 8:59 9:29
Burpee broad jump 15:27 13:14
Run 5 10:01 9:14
Row 6:11 6:10
Run 6 8:21 7:52
Farmers carry 2:26 4:36
Run 7 8:50 8:17
Sandbag lunges 12:04 10:59
Run 8 10:14 9:47
Wall balls 11:53 15:19
Roxzone 13:13 11:09
Finish 2:28:18 2:28:43

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merari Brandon Gap
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 2:28:18 2:28:43 0:25 · Merari faster
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