Sarah vs Karen
Sarah Pearce
Karen Smet
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Sarah: Mechelen 2025, Open Women · Karen: Maastricht 2026, Open Women
This chart shows where Sarah and Karen sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sarah: strongest on Runs (faster than 50% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).Karen: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 19%).
See the numbers
| Part | Sarah: faster than | Karen: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 46% | 87% |
| Push | 22% | 28% |
| Pull | 16% | 84% |
| BBJ | 25% | 76% |
| Row | 19% | 58% |
| Carry | 3% | 45% |
| Lunges | 49% | 56% |
| Wall balls | 26% | 92% |
| Roxzone | 49% | 48% |
| Runs | 50% | 19% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Sarah | Karen |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 46% | 87% |
| Sled push | 22% | 28% |
| Sled pull | 16% | 84% |
| Burpee broad jump | 25% | 76% |
| Row | 19% | 58% |
| Farmers carry | 3% | 45% |
| Sandbag lunges | 49% | 56% |
| Wall balls | 26% | 92% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 49% | 48% |
| Runs (8 km) | 50% | 19% |
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.Sarah · Mechelen 2025 · Open Women: 43:29 running, 45:18 at the stations and 10:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:09) and the shortest the sled push (2:45).Below, Karen · Maastricht 2026 · Open Women: 53:23 running, 36:02 at the stations and 8:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:54).
See the numbers
| Part | Sarah · Mechelen 2025 · Open Women | Karen · Maastricht 2026 · Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 7:02 | 4:37 |
| SkiErg | 5:10 | 4:49 |
| Run 2 | 4:53 | 6:30 |
| Sled push | 2:45 | 3:22 |
| Run 3 | 5:12 | 6:35 |
| Sled pull | 7:07 | 4:25 |
| Run 4 | 5:04 | 6:51 |
| Burpee broad jump | 8:09 | 5:54 |
| Run 5 | 4:53 | 6:58 |
| Row | 5:49 | 5:26 |
| Run 6 | 5:18 | 7:04 |
| Farmers carry | 3:58 | 2:26 |
| Run 7 | 5:12 | 7:04 |
| Sandbag lunges | 5:07 | 4:58 |
| Run 8 | 5:55 | 7:44 |
| Wall balls | 7:12 | 4:42 |
| Roxzone | 10:42 | 8:31 |
| Finish | 1:39:28 | 1:37:50 |
Head to head: 1 race they both ran
| Race | Sarah | Karen | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechelen 2025 Open Women · 4 Apr 2025 | 1:39:28 | 1:39:26 | 0:02 · Karen faster |
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