Ruth vs Helen

GBR GBR · Open Women · 3 results

Ruth Holmes

1:33:32 best Open Women time · London 2025
763rd of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 5 results

Helen Sherfield

1:24:08 best Open Women time · Birmingham Birm
732nd of 2,703 place in that race · 2,703 Open Women finishers

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

Ruth: London 2025, Open Women · Helen: Birmingham Birm, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Ruth and Helen sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ruth: strongest on Lunges (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 20%).Helen: strongest on Row (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 58%).

See the numbers
Part Ruth: faster than Helen: faster than
Ski 77% 84%
Push 45% 91%
Pull 51% 81%
BBJ 26% 75%
Row 69% 94%
Carry 75% 86%
Lunges 80% 74%
Wall balls 75% 64%
Roxzone 20% 78%
Runs 37% 58%

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

Part by part

Part Ruth Helen
SkiErg 77% 84%
Sled push 45% 91%
Sled pull 51% 81%
Burpee broad jump 26% 75%
Row 69% 94%
Farmers carry 75% 86%
Sandbag lunges 80% 74%
Wall balls 75% 64%
Roxzone (moving) 20% 78%
Runs (8 km) 37% 58%

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

Ruth · London 2025 · Open Women1:33:32
6:054:495:402:495:375:155:408:025:445:095:522:055:544:137:245:407:44
Helen · Birmingham Birm · Open Women1:24:08
6:194:545:152:325:114:345:135:285:174:535:171:545:284:185:246:086:09
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.Ruth · London 2025 · Open Women: 47:56 running, 38:02 at the stations and 7:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:02).Below, Helen · Birmingham Birm · Open Women: 43:24 running, 34:41 at the stations and 6:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:08).

See the numbers
Part Ruth · London 2025 · Open Women Helen · Birmingham Birm · Open Women
Run 1 6:05 6:19
SkiErg 4:49 4:54
Run 2 5:40 5:15
Sled push 2:49 2:32
Run 3 5:37 5:11
Sled pull 5:15 4:34
Run 4 5:40 5:13
Burpee broad jump 8:02 5:28
Run 5 5:44 5:17
Row 5:09 4:53
Run 6 5:52 5:17
Farmers carry 2:05 1:54
Run 7 5:54 5:28
Sandbag lunges 4:13 4:18
Run 8 7:24 5:24
Wall balls 5:40 6:08
Roxzone 7:44 6:09
Finish 1:33:32 1:24:08

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ruth Helen Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Women · 22 Oct 2025 1:34:03 1:33:58 0:05 · Helen faster
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