Michael vs Chester

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Michael Brown

1:32:59 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1094th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Chester Carlson

1:33:01 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
1095th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Houston 2026, Open Men · Chester: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Chester sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Row (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 36%).Chester: strongest on Carry (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 40%).

See the numbers
Part Michael: faster than Chester: faster than
Ski 62% 58%
Push 57% 52%
Pull 56% 54%
BBJ 74% 50%
Row 75% 71%
Carry 61% 76%
Lunges 64% 73%
Wall balls 59% 65%
Roxzone 54% 40%
Runs 36% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Chester
SkiErg 62% 58%
Sled push 57% 52%
Sled pull 56% 54%
Burpee broad jump 74% 50%
Row 75% 71%
Farmers carry 61% 76%
Sandbag lunges 64% 73%
Wall balls 59% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 40%
Runs (8 km) 36% 40%

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

Michael · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:32:59
6:284:345:343:065:525:326:074:506:134:445:372:085:235:076:317:148:06
Chester · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:33:01
5:234:365:223:125:375:355:485:516:284:476:011:585:414:456:136:499:04
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.Michael · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 47:46 running, 37:14 at the stations and 8:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:14).Below, Chester · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 46:34 running, 37:33 at the stations and 9:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:49).

See the numbers
Part Michael · Houston 2026 · Open Men Chester · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:28 5:23
SkiErg 4:34 4:36
Run 2 5:34 5:22
Sled push 3:06 3:12
Run 3 5:52 5:37
Sled pull 5:32 5:35
Run 4 6:07 5:48
Burpee broad jump 4:50 5:51
Run 5 6:13 6:28
Row 4:44 4:47
Run 6 5:37 6:01
Farmers carry 2:08 1:58
Run 7 5:23 5:41
Sandbag lunges 5:07 4:45
Run 8 6:31 6:13
Wall balls 7:14 6:49
Roxzone 8:06 9:04
Finish 1:32:59 1:33:01

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Michael Chester Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 1:32:59 1:33:01 0:02 · Michael faster
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 1:48:52 1:33:29 15:23 · Chester faster
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