Joy vs Melissa
USA · Pro Women · 10 results Joy McAdams
USA · Pro Women · 9 results Melissa Chisholm
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Joy: Miami Beach 2025, Open Women · Melissa: New York 2026, Open Women
This chart shows where Joy and Melissa sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joy: strongest on Runs (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 19%).Melissa: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 81%).
See the numbers
| Part | Joy: faster than | Melissa: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 51% | 81% |
| Push | 68% | 98% |
| Pull | 41% | 94% |
| BBJ | 62% | 87% |
| Row | 68% | 92% |
| Carry | 19% | 98% |
| Lunges | 64% | 97% |
| Wall balls | 60% | 99% |
| Roxzone | 75% | 99% |
| Runs | 87% | 99% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Joy | Melissa |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 51% | 81% |
| Sled push | 68% | 98% |
| Sled pull | 41% | 94% |
| Burpee broad jump | 62% | 87% |
| Row | 68% | 92% |
| Farmers carry | 19% | 98% |
| Sandbag lunges | 64% | 97% |
| Wall balls | 60% | 99% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 75% | 99% |
| Runs (8 km) | 87% | 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
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.Joy · Miami Beach 2025 · Open Women: 37:31 running, 37:55 at the stations and 6:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:35) and the shortest the sled push (2:29).Below, Melissa · New York 2026 · Open Women: 35:14 running, 30:48 at the stations and 3:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:08).
See the numbers
| Part | Joy · Miami Beach 2025 · Open Women | Melissa · New York 2026 · Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 3:32 | 4:17 |
| SkiErg | 5:14 | 4:58 |
| Run 2 | 4:34 | 3:50 |
| Sled push | 2:29 | 1:56 |
| Run 3 | 4:43 | 4:10 |
| Sled pull | 6:35 | 4:08 |
| Run 4 | 4:49 | 4:17 |
| Burpee broad jump | 5:30 | 5:08 |
| Run 5 | 4:57 | 4:22 |
| Row | 5:18 | 5:02 |
| Run 6 | 4:58 | 4:27 |
| Farmers carry | 2:52 | 1:50 |
| Run 7 | 4:59 | 4:23 |
| Sandbag lunges | 4:35 | 3:35 |
| Run 8 | 4:59 | 5:28 |
| Wall balls | 5:23 | 4:12 |
| Roxzone | 6:19 | 3:36 |
| Finish | 1:21:38 | 1:09:30 |
Head to head: 2 races they both ran
| Race | Joy | Melissa | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston 2026 Pro Women · 8 Oct 2026 | 1:26:03 | 1:26:01 | 0:02 · Melissa faster |
| Miami 2026 Pro Women · 3 Apr 2026 | 1:30:51 | 1:21:51 | 9:00 · Melissa faster |
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