Brandon vs Merari

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Brandon Johns

2:28:43 best Open Men time · Dallas 2025
2031st of 2,075 place in that race · 2,075 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Merari Ortega

2:28:18 best Open Men time · Dallas 2025
2029th of 2,075 place in that race · 2,075 Open Men finishers

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

Brandon: Dallas 2025, Open Men · Merari: Dallas 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Brandon and Merari sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brandon: strongest on Ski (faster than 18% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 1%).Merari: strongest on Push (faster than 47% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 1%).

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Part Brandon: faster than Merari: faster than
Ski 18% 5%
Push 2% 47%
Pull 2% 8%
BBJ 1% 1%
Row 8% 8%
Carry 1% 26%
Lunges 2% 1%
Wall balls 4% 11%
Roxzone 6% 3%
Runs 4% 3%

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

Part by part

Part Brandon Merari
SkiErg 18% 5%
Sled push 2% 47%
Sled pull 2% 8%
Burpee broad jump 1% 1%
Row 8% 8%
Farmers carry 1% 26%
Sandbag lunges 2% 1%
Wall balls 4% 11%
Roxzone (moving) 6% 3%
Runs (8 km) 4% 3%

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

Brandon · Dallas 2025 · Open Men2:28:43
6:484:497:565:168:419:169:2913:149:146:107:524:368:1710:599:4715:1911:09
Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men2:28:18
8:305:118:092:598:177:418:5915:2710:016:118:212:268:5012:0410:1411:5313:13
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.Brandon · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 1:08:03 running, 1:09:40 at the stations and 11:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:19).Below, Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 1:11:20 running, 1:03:51 at the stations and 13:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:27).

See the numbers
Part Brandon · Dallas 2025 · Open Men Merari · Dallas 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:48 8:30
SkiErg 4:49 5:11
Run 2 7:56 8:09
Sled push 5:16 2:59
Run 3 8:41 8:17
Sled pull 9:16 7:41
Run 4 9:29 8:59
Burpee broad jump 13:14 15:27
Run 5 9:14 10:01
Row 6:10 6:11
Run 6 7:52 8:21
Farmers carry 4:36 2:26
Run 7 8:17 8:50
Sandbag lunges 10:59 12:04
Run 8 9:47 10:14
Wall balls 15:19 11:53
Roxzone 11:09 13:13
Finish 2:28:43 2:28:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brandon Merari Gap
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 2:28:43 2:28:18 0:25 · Merari faster
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