Mike vs Karl

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Mike Pickels

2:33:57 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
1272nd of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Karl Rasmussen

2:34:08 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
1273rd of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers

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

Mike: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men · Karl: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJ
no split
RowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MikeKarledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Mike and Karl sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mike: strongest on Lunges (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).Karl: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 23% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).

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Part Mike: faster than Karl: faster than
Ski 1% 4%
Push 3% 4%
Pull 2% 5%
BBJ no split 2%
Row 4% 3%
Carry 1% 18%
Lunges 73% 2%
Wall balls 4% 1%
Roxzone 0% 23%
Runs 2% 3%

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

Part by part

Part Mike Karl
SkiErg 1% 4%
Sled push 3% 4%
Sled pull 2% 5%
Burpee broad jump — 2%
Row 4% 3%
Farmers carry 1% 18%
Sandbag lunges 73% 2%
Wall balls 4% 1%
Roxzone (moving) 0% 23%
Runs (8 km) 2% 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

Mike · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men2:33:57
3:585:517:185:178:198:269:169:036:1310:283:549:414:4712:5516:3731:58
Karl · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men2:34:08
4:315:318:085:058:417:498:5913:039:266:209:312:4110:0811:559:5120:0712:30
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.Mike · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 1:10:59 running, 51:05 at the stations and 31:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:37).Below, Karl · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 1:09:14 running, 1:12:31 at the stations and 12:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (20:07).

See the numbers
Part Mike · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men Karl · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:58 4:31
SkiErg 5:51 5:31
Run 2 7:18 8:08
Sled push 5:17 5:05
Run 3 8:19 8:41
Sled pull 8:26 7:49
Run 4 9:16 8:59
Burpee broad jump — 13:03
Run 5 9:03 9:26
Row 6:13 6:20
Run 6 10:28 9:31
Farmers carry 3:54 2:41
Run 7 9:41 10:08
Sandbag lunges 4:47 11:55
Run 8 12:55 9:51
Wall balls 16:37 20:07
Roxzone 31:58 12:30
Finish 2:33:57 2:34:08

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Karl Gap
Salt Lake City 2026 Open Men · 18 Sep 2026 2:33:57 2:34:08 0:11 · Mike faster
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