Jess vs Melissa

GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Jess McHugh

1:29:41 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
1339th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Melissa Cole

1:28:09 best Open Women time · Cardiff 2026
723rd of 2,039 place in that race · 2,039 Open Women finishers

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

Jess: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women · Melissa: Cardiff 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Jess and Melissa sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jess: strongest on Pull (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 26%).Melissa: strongest on Pull (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 45%).

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Part Jess: faster than Melissa: faster than
Ski 35% 56%
Push 37% 81%
Pull 88% 91%
BBJ 48% 79%
Row 65% 85%
Carry 26% 62%
Lunges 50% 55%
Wall balls 31% 83%
Roxzone 59% 59%
Runs 60% 45%

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

Part by part

Part Jess Melissa
SkiErg 35% 56%
Sled push 37% 81%
Sled pull 88% 91%
Burpee broad jump 48% 79%
Row 65% 85%
Farmers carry 26% 62%
Sandbag lunges 50% 55%
Wall balls 31% 83%
Roxzone (moving) 59% 59%
Runs (8 km) 60% 45%

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

Jess · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:29:41
3:215:434:152:574:234:274:306:474:265:244:242:324:285:026:218:0612:41
Melissa · Cardiff 2026 · Open Women1:28:09
5:535:145:302:305:414:075:405:477:555:066:042:465:244:486:215:054:21
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.Jess · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 36:08 running, 40:58 at the stations and 12:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:06).Below, Melissa · Cardiff 2026 · Open Women: 48:28 running, 35:23 at the stations and 4:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:47) and the shortest the sled push (2:30).

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Part Jess · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women Melissa · Cardiff 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 3:21 5:53
SkiErg 5:43 5:14
Run 2 4:15 5:30
Sled push 2:57 2:30
Run 3 4:23 5:41
Sled pull 4:27 4:07
Run 4 4:30 5:40
Burpee broad jump 6:47 5:47
Run 5 4:26 7:55
Row 5:24 5:06
Run 6 4:24 6:04
Farmers carry 2:32 2:46
Run 7 4:28 5:24
Sandbag lunges 5:02 4:48
Run 8 6:21 6:21
Wall balls 8:06 5:05
Roxzone 12:41 4:21
Finish 1:29:41 1:28:09

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Jess Melissa Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Women · 4 Dec 2025 1:29:41 1:29:40 0:01 · Melissa faster
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