Mark vs John

USA USA · Open Men · 5 results

Mark Palumbo

1:16:23 best Open Men time · Boston 2025
253rd of 1,463 place in that race · 1,463 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 7 results

John Wooley

1:23:48 best Open Men time · Washington DC 2026
867th of 2,855 place in that race · 2,855 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: Boston 2025, Open Men · John: Washington DC 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on BBJ (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 38%).John: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 22%).

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Part Mark: faster than John: faster than
Ski 67% 22%
Push 63% 25%
Pull 70% 53%
BBJ 98% 49%
Row 63% 63%
Carry 59% 47%
Lunges 97% 39%
Wall balls 38% 85%
Roxzone 88% 74%
Runs 82% 75%

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

Part by part

Part Mark John
SkiErg 67% 22%
Sled push 63% 25%
Sled pull 70% 53%
Burpee broad jump 98% 49%
Row 63% 63%
Farmers carry 59% 47%
Sandbag lunges 97% 39%
Wall balls 38% 85%
Roxzone (moving) 88% 74%
Runs (8 km) 82% 75%

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

Mark · Boston 2025 · Open Men1:16:23
5:224:274:132:264:324:424:323:164:534:464:282:014:473:224:578:554:52
John · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men1:23:48
4:105:054:473:435:024:565:016:024:514:544:512:104:566:144:395:287:06
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.Mark · Boston 2025 · Open Men: 37:44 running, 33:56 at the stations and 4:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:55).Below, John · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men: 38:17 running, 38:32 at the stations and 7:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:14).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Boston 2025 · Open Men John · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:22 4:10
SkiErg 4:27 5:05
Run 2 4:13 4:47
Sled push 2:26 3:43
Run 3 4:32 5:02
Sled pull 4:42 4:56
Run 4 4:32 5:01
Burpee broad jump 3:16 6:02
Run 5 4:53 4:51
Row 4:46 4:54
Run 6 4:28 4:51
Farmers carry 2:01 2:10
Run 7 4:47 4:56
Sandbag lunges 3:22 6:14
Run 8 4:57 4:39
Wall balls 8:55 5:28
Roxzone 4:52 7:06
Finish 1:16:23 1:23:48

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Mark John Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 1:28:37 1:28:35 0:02 · John faster
Boston 2025 Open Men · 26 Sep 2025 1:16:23 1:39:24 23:01 · Mark faster
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