Ali vs Derek

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Ali Ndlovu

1:50:10 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
383rd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 6 results

Derek Harvey

1:34:47 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
377th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Ali: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men · Derek: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ali and Derek sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ali: strongest on Pull (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 24%).Derek: strongest on Lunges (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 32%).

See the numbers
Part Ali: faster than Derek: faster than
Ski 37% 67%
Push 40% 40%
Pull 94% 65%
BBJ 46% 32%
Row 55% 45%
Carry 85% 67%
Lunges 59% 79%
Wall balls 71% 53%
Roxzone 29% 75%
Runs 24% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Ali Derek
SkiErg 37% 67%
Sled push 40% 40%
Sled pull 94% 65%
Burpee broad jump 46% 32%
Row 55% 45%
Farmers carry 85% 67%
Sandbag lunges 59% 79%
Wall balls 71% 53%
Roxzone (moving) 29% 75%
Runs (8 km) 24% 40%

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

Ali · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:50:10
7:425:006:414:116:304:086:317:116:415:046:371:538:005:3110:177:1611:07
Derek · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:34:47
2:524:197:583:206:534:476:457:077:065:067:141:595:114:346:087:395:55
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.Ali · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 58:59 running, 40:14 at the stations and 11:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:16).Below, Derek · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 50:07 running, 38:51 at the stations and 5:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:39).

See the numbers
Part Ali · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men Derek · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:42 2:52
SkiErg 5:00 4:19
Run 2 6:41 7:58
Sled push 4:11 3:20
Run 3 6:30 6:53
Sled pull 4:08 4:47
Run 4 6:31 6:45
Burpee broad jump 7:11 7:07
Run 5 6:41 7:06
Row 5:04 5:06
Run 6 6:37 7:14
Farmers carry 1:53 1:59
Run 7 8:00 5:11
Sandbag lunges 5:31 4:34
Run 8 10:17 6:08
Wall balls 7:16 7:39
Roxzone 11:07 5:55
Finish 1:50:10 1:34:47

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ali Derek Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:50:10 1:50:13 0:03 · Ali faster
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