John vs Alex

IRL IRL · Open Men · 5 results

John Cronin

1:25:20 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
1284th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 5 results

Alex Maxwell

1:20:12 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2025
536th of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Men finishers

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

John: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Alex: Brisbane 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where John and Alex sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.John: strongest on BBJ (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 7%).Alex: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 24%).

See the numbers
Part John: faster than Alex: faster than
Ski 50% 83%
Push 7% 24%
Pull 30% 80%
BBJ 75% 46%
Row 16% 83%
Carry 47% 78%
Lunges 52% 71%
Wall balls 37% 96%
Roxzone 42% 73%
Runs 65% 42%

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

Part by part

Part John Alex
SkiErg 50% 83%
Sled push 7% 24%
Sled pull 30% 80%
Burpee broad jump 75% 46%
Row 16% 83%
Farmers carry 47% 78%
Sandbag lunges 52% 71%
Wall balls 37% 96%
Roxzone (moving) 42% 73%
Runs (8 km) 65% 42%

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

John · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:25:20
4:344:214:273:184:425:304:434:305:095:155:062:105:005:205:556:478:41
Alex · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men1:20:12
2:594:054:592:545:173:515:475:416:034:255:381:525:534:316:024:086:15
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.John · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 39:37 running, 37:11 at the stations and 8:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:47).Below, Alex · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men: 42:37 running, 31:27 at the stations and 6:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:41).

See the numbers
Part John · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Alex · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:34 2:59
SkiErg 4:21 4:05
Run 2 4:27 4:59
Sled push 3:18 2:54
Run 3 4:42 5:17
Sled pull 5:30 3:51
Run 4 4:43 5:47
Burpee broad jump 4:30 5:41
Run 5 5:09 6:03
Row 5:15 4:25
Run 6 5:06 5:38
Farmers carry 2:10 1:52
Run 7 5:00 5:53
Sandbag lunges 5:20 4:31
Run 8 5:55 6:02
Wall balls 6:47 4:08
Roxzone 8:41 6:15
Finish 1:25:20 1:20:12

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race John Alex Gap
Sydney 2025 Doubles Mixed · 4 Jul 2025 1:10:53 1:29:16 18:23 · John faster
Melbourne 2024 Open Men · 28 Jun 2024 1:25:20 1:25:21 0:01 · John faster
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