Darren vs Steve

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Darren McDonnell

1:32:08 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
1769th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

Steve Hurcom

1:37:15 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2025
1075th of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Men finishers

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

Darren: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Steve: Brisbane 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall balls
no split
RoxzoneRuns
DarrenSteveedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Darren and Steve sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Darren: strongest on Push (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 5%).Steve: strongest on Lunges (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 4%).

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Part Darren: faster than Steve: faster than
Ski 61% 68%
Push 76% 54%
Pull 60% 41%
BBJ 63% 8%
Row 27% 43%
Carry 72% 23%
Lunges 51% 99%
Wall balls no split 7%
Roxzone 10% 4%
Runs 5% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Darren Steve
SkiErg 61% 68%
Sled push 76% 54%
Sled pull 60% 41%
Burpee broad jump 63% 8%
Row 27% 43%
Farmers carry 72% 23%
Sandbag lunges 51% 99%
Wall balls — 7%
Roxzone (moving) 10% 4%
Runs (8 km) 5% 34%

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

Darren · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:32:08
2:444:175:301:576:284:326:114:586:115:046:211:555:215:2120:5612:07
Steve · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men1:37:15
2:374:115:242:296:164:485:468:285:584:465:482:315:392:476:469:4513:24
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.Darren · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 59:41 running, 28:04 at the stations and 12:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (5:21).Below, Steve · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men: 44:15 running, 39:45 at the stations and 13:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:45) and the shortest the sled push (2:29).

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Part Darren · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Steve · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:44 2:37
SkiErg 4:17 4:11
Run 2 5:30 5:24
Sled push 1:57 2:29
Run 3 6:28 6:16
Sled pull 4:32 4:48
Run 4 6:11 5:46
Burpee broad jump 4:58 8:28
Run 5 6:11 5:58
Row 5:04 4:46
Run 6 6:21 5:48
Farmers carry 1:55 2:31
Run 7 5:21 5:39
Sandbag lunges 5:21 2:47
Run 8 20:56 6:46
Wall balls — 9:45
Roxzone 12:07 13:24
Finish 1:32:08 1:37:15

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Darren Steve Gap
Brisbane 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:37:07 1:37:15 0:08 · Darren faster
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