Wendy vs Mel
GBR · Open Women · 3 results Wendy Smith
GBR · Open Women · 5 results Mel Norris
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Wendy: Birmingham 2024, Open Women · Mel: Cardiff 2025, Open Women
This chart shows where Wendy and Mel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Wendy: strongest on BBJ (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 7%).Mel: strongest on Lunges (faster than 58% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 8%).
See the numbers
| Part | Wendy: faster than | Mel: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 28% | 47% |
| Push | 8% | 10% |
| Pull | 21% | 29% |
| BBJ | 83% | 51% |
| Row | 7% | 19% |
| Carry | 30% | 8% |
| Lunges | 35% | 58% |
| Wall balls | 12% | 43% |
| Roxzone | 47% | 35% |
| Runs | 16% | 27% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Wendy | Mel |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 28% | 47% |
| Sled push | 8% | 10% |
| Sled pull | 21% | 29% |
| Burpee broad jump | 83% | 51% |
| Row | 7% | 19% |
| Farmers carry | 30% | 8% |
| Sandbag lunges | 35% | 58% |
| Wall balls | 12% | 43% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 47% | 35% |
| Runs (8 km) | 16% | 27% |
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.Wendy · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women: 53:15 running, 45:24 at the stations and 8:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:06).Below, Mel · Cardiff 2025 · Open Women: 49:12 running, 41:49 at the stations and 6:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:01).
See the numbers
| Part | Wendy · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women | Mel · Cardiff 2025 · Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 6:23 | 5:54 |
| SkiErg | 5:19 | 5:17 |
| Run 2 | 5:53 | 5:42 |
| Sled push | 3:36 | 3:33 |
| Run 3 | 6:33 | 5:42 |
| Sled pull | 6:53 | 6:08 |
| Run 4 | 6:40 | 6:09 |
| Burpee broad jump | 5:13 | 7:01 |
| Run 5 | 6:57 | 6:12 |
| Row | 6:15 | 5:51 |
| Run 6 | 6:42 | 5:59 |
| Farmers carry | 2:30 | 3:07 |
| Run 7 | 6:36 | 6:10 |
| Sandbag lunges | 5:32 | 4:30 |
| Run 8 | 7:31 | 7:24 |
| Wall balls | 10:06 | 6:22 |
| Roxzone | 8:14 | 6:07 |
| Finish | 1:46:44 | 1:37:08 |
Head to head: 1 race they both ran
| Race | Wendy | Mel | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham 2024 Open Women · 25 Oct 2024 | 1:46:44 | 1:46:46 | 0:02 · Wendy faster |
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