Stephen vs Alex

USA USA · Open Men · 7 results

Stephen Vobbe

1:28:46 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
871st of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Alex Menkhaus

1:28:40 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
869th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Stephen: Houston 2026, Open Men · Alex: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stephen and Alex sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stephen: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 17%).Alex: strongest on Carry (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 43%).

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Part Stephen: faster than Alex: faster than
Ski 56% 45%
Push 17% 59%
Pull 67% 68%
BBJ 68% 73%
Row 26% 85%
Carry 37% 85%
Lunges 50% 81%
Wall balls 84% 72%
Roxzone 54% 60%
Runs 58% 43%

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

Part by part

Part Stephen Alex
SkiErg 56% 45%
Sled push 17% 59%
Sled pull 67% 68%
Burpee broad jump 68% 73%
Row 26% 85%
Farmers carry 37% 85%
Sandbag lunges 50% 81%
Wall balls 84% 72%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 60%
Runs (8 km) 58% 43%

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

Stephen · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:28:46
5:264:374:524:165:185:105:185:085:365:215:172:265:095:385:385:418:04
Alex · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:28:40
6:214:435:403:045:535:095:544:545:554:375:331:495:184:255:276:267:40
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.Stephen · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 42:34 running, 38:17 at the stations and 8:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:41).Below, Alex · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 46:01 running, 35:08 at the stations and 7:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:26).

See the numbers
Part Stephen · Houston 2026 · Open Men Alex · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:26 6:21
SkiErg 4:37 4:43
Run 2 4:52 5:40
Sled push 4:16 3:04
Run 3 5:18 5:53
Sled pull 5:10 5:09
Run 4 5:18 5:54
Burpee broad jump 5:08 4:54
Run 5 5:36 5:55
Row 5:21 4:37
Run 6 5:17 5:33
Farmers carry 2:26 1:49
Run 7 5:09 5:18
Sandbag lunges 5:38 4:25
Run 8 5:38 5:27
Wall balls 5:41 6:26
Roxzone 8:04 7:40
Finish 1:28:46 1:28:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stephen Alex Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 1:28:46 1:28:40 0:06 · Alex faster
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