Eric vs Merrell

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Eric Galaske

2:01:12 best Open Men time · Washington DC 2025
1446th of 1,544 place in that race · 1,544 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Merrell Wood

2:03:21 best Open Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
762nd of 814 place in that race · 814 Open Men finishers

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

Eric: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men · Merrell: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Eric and Merrell sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Eric: strongest on Push (faster than 60% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).Merrell: strongest on Carry (faster than 20% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 4%).

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Part Eric: faster than Merrell: faster than
Ski 10% 8%
Push 60% 18%
Pull 10% 12%
BBJ 11% 7%
Row 12% 19%
Carry 3% 20%
Lunges 14% 7%
Wall balls 11% 4%
Roxzone 13% 10%
Runs 5% 8%

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

Part by part

Part Eric Merrell
SkiErg 10% 8%
Sled push 60% 18%
Sled pull 10% 12%
Burpee broad jump 11% 7%
Row 12% 19%
Farmers carry 3% 20%
Sandbag lunges 14% 7%
Wall balls 11% 4%
Roxzone (moving) 13% 10%
Runs (8 km) 5% 8%

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

Eric · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men2:03:18
5:364:587:352:458:326:447:508:438:015:277:553:278:177:2010:189:1310:46
Merrell · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men2:03:21
4:055:025:343:416:306:356:029:396:005:167:312:365:588:3717:3611:1911:28
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.Eric · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 1:04:04 running, 48:37 at the stations and 10:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:13) and the shortest the sled push (2:45).Below, Merrell · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 59:16 running, 52:45 at the stations and 11:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:19).

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Part Eric · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men Merrell · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 5:36 4:05
SkiErg 4:58 5:02
Run 2 7:35 5:34
Sled push 2:45 3:41
Run 3 8:32 6:30
Sled pull 6:44 6:35
Run 4 7:50 6:02
Burpee broad jump 8:43 9:39
Run 5 8:01 6:00
Row 5:27 5:16
Run 6 7:55 7:31
Farmers carry 3:27 2:36
Run 7 8:17 5:58
Sandbag lunges 7:20 8:37
Run 8 10:18 17:36
Wall balls 9:13 11:19
Roxzone 10:46 11:28
Finish 2:03:18 2:03:21

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Eric Merrell Gap
Chicago Navy Pier 2024 Open Men · 16 Nov 2024 2:03:18 2:03:21 0:03 · Eric faster
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