Markus vs John

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Markus Lohse

1:54:20 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2024
709th of 770 place in that race · 770 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

John Daly

1:28:00 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2249th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Markus: Stuttgart 2024, Open Men · John: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Markus and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Markus: strongest on Pull (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 1%).John: strongest on Carry (faster than 56% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 17%).

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Part Markus: faster than John: faster than
Ski 40% 20%
Push 60% 17%
Pull 93% 21%
BBJ 8% 26%
Row 30% 41%
Carry 12% 56%
Lunges 43% 51%
Wall balls 70% 44%
Roxzone 48% 55%
Runs 1% 52%

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

Part by part

Part Markus John
SkiErg 40% 20%
Sled push 60% 17%
Sled pull 93% 21%
Burpee broad jump 8% 26%
Row 30% 41%
Farmers carry 12% 56%
Sandbag lunges 43% 51%
Wall balls 70% 44%
Roxzone (moving) 48% 55%
Runs (8 km) 1% 52%

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

Markus · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men1:54:20
5:444:367:512:398:183:389:048:539:315:018:532:398:505:289:496:007:34
John · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:28:00
5:474:474:374:214:446:104:456:515:074:554:462:054:495:105:097:416:26
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.Markus · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men: 1:08:00 running, 38:54 at the stations and 7:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:53) and the shortest the sled push (2:39).Below, John · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 39:44 running, 42:00 at the stations and 6:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:41).

See the numbers
Part Markus · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men John · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:44 5:47
SkiErg 4:36 4:47
Run 2 7:51 4:37
Sled push 2:39 4:21
Run 3 8:18 4:44
Sled pull 3:38 6:10
Run 4 9:04 4:45
Burpee broad jump 8:53 6:51
Run 5 9:31 5:07
Row 5:01 4:55
Run 6 8:53 4:46
Farmers carry 2:39 2:05
Run 7 8:50 4:49
Sandbag lunges 5:28 5:10
Run 8 9:49 5:09
Wall balls 6:00 7:41
Roxzone 7:34 6:26
Finish 1:54:20 1:28:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Markus John Gap
Stuttgart 2024 Open Men · 28 Sep 2024 1:54:20 1:54:19 0:01 · John faster
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