Alan vs Sam

IRL IRL · Open Men · 4 results

Alan McCarthy

1:06:13 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2025
54th of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Pro Men · 5 results

Sam Tyrrell

1:02:59 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
21st of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers

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

Alan: Brisbane 2025, Open Men · Sam: Melbourne 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alan and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alan: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 74%).Sam: strongest on Runs (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 58%).

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Part Alan: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 74% 70%
Push 86% 58%
Pull 90% 85%
BBJ 96% 94%
Row 85% 67%
Carry 94% 97%
Lunges 88% 92%
Wall balls 97% 92%
Roxzone 90% 87%
Runs 93% 99%

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

Part by part

Part Alan Sam
SkiErg 74% 70%
Sled push 86% 58%
Sled pull 90% 85%
Burpee broad jump 96% 94%
Row 85% 67%
Farmers carry 94% 97%
Sandbag lunges 88% 92%
Wall balls 97% 92%
Roxzone (moving) 90% 87%
Runs (8 km) 93% 99%

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

Alan · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men1:06:13
2:164:094:112:054:333:294:353:324:284:244:241:394:283:574:394:005:30
Sam · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:02:59
2:084:133:312:113:533:493:463:303:504:403:431:313:463:574:014:256:12
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.Alan · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men: 33:34 running, 27:14 at the stations and 5:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:24).Below, Sam · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 28:38 running, 28:17 at the stations and 6:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:40).

See the numbers
Part Alan · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men Sam · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 2:16 2:08
SkiErg 4:09 4:13
Run 2 4:11 3:31
Sled push 2:05 2:11
Run 3 4:33 3:53
Sled pull 3:29 3:49
Run 4 4:35 3:46
Burpee broad jump 3:32 3:30
Run 5 4:28 3:50
Row 4:24 4:40
Run 6 4:24 3:43
Farmers carry 1:39 1:31
Run 7 4:28 3:46
Sandbag lunges 3:57 3:57
Run 8 4:39 4:01
Wall balls 4:00 4:25
Roxzone 5:30 6:12
Finish 1:06:13 1:02:59

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Alan Sam Gap
Brisbane 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:06:13 1:06:11 0:02 · Sam faster
Melbourne 2024 Open Men · 28 Jun 2024 1:08:04 1:02:59 5:05 · Sam faster
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