Merari vs Jose

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 · 2 results

Jose Govea

1:55:57 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1837th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Merari: Dallas 2025, Open Men · Jose: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Merari and Jose 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%).Jose: strongest on Push (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 5%).

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Part Merari: faster than Jose: faster than
Ski 5% 12%
Push 47% 66%
Pull 8% 18%
BBJ 1% 12%
Row 8% 20%
Carry 26% 14%
Lunges 1% 5%
Wall balls 11% 23%
Roxzone 3% 48%
Runs 3% 18%

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

Part by part

Part Merari Jose
SkiErg 5% 12%
Sled push 47% 66%
Sled pull 8% 18%
Burpee broad jump 1% 12%
Row 8% 20%
Farmers carry 26% 14%
Sandbag lunges 1% 5%
Wall balls 11% 23%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 48%
Runs (8 km) 3% 18%

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
Jose · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:55:57
7:135:106:322:566:507:166:568:447:065:286:483:016:369:456:5510:208:31
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, Jose · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 54:56 running, 52:40 at the stations and 8:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:20) and the shortest the sled push (2:56).

See the numbers
Part Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men Jose · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 8:30 7:13
SkiErg 5:11 5:10
Run 2 8:09 6:32
Sled push 2:59 2:56
Run 3 8:17 6:50
Sled pull 7:41 7:16
Run 4 8:59 6:56
Burpee broad jump 15:27 8:44
Run 5 10:01 7:06
Row 6:11 5:28
Run 6 8:21 6:48
Farmers carry 2:26 3:01
Run 7 8:50 6:36
Sandbag lunges 12:04 9:45
Run 8 10:14 6:55
Wall balls 11:53 10:20
Roxzone 13:13 8:31
Finish 2:28:18 1:55:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merari Jose Gap
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 2:28:18 2:28:19 0:01 · Merari faster
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