Nic vs Michael

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Nic Smith

2:10:55 best Open Men time · Perth 2025
830th of 855 place in that race · 855 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 5 results

Michael Howes

2:10:57 best Open Men time · Perth 2025
831st of 855 place in that race · 855 Open Men finishers

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

Nic: Perth 2025, Open Men · Michael: Perth 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nic and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nic: strongest on Push (faster than 20% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 0%).Michael: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 10% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Nic: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 15% 2%
Push 20% 10%
Pull 16% 4%
BBJ 2% 3%
Row 0% 1%
Carry 11% 7%
Lunges 5% 6%
Wall balls 19% 10%
Roxzone 5% 6%
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 Nic Michael
SkiErg 15% 2%
Sled push 20% 10%
Sled pull 16% 4%
Burpee broad jump 2% 3%
Row 0% 1%
Farmers carry 11% 7%
Sandbag lunges 5% 6%
Wall balls 19% 10%
Roxzone (moving) 5% 6%
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

Nic · Perth 2025 · Open Men2:10:55
6:354:396:043:369:026:117:2310:487:028:387:562:508:089:189:589:1413:39
Michael · Perth 2025 · Open Men2:10:57
6:435:096:214:116:527:547:3110:317:318:067:163:047:419:079:0310:3813:25
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.Nic · Perth 2025 · Open Men: 1:02:07 running, 55:13 at the stations and 13:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (10:48).Below, Michael · Perth 2025 · Open Men: 58:59 running, 58:40 at the stations and 13:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:38).

See the numbers
Part Nic · Perth 2025 · Open Men Michael · Perth 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:35 6:43
SkiErg 4:39 5:09
Run 2 6:04 6:21
Sled push 3:36 4:11
Run 3 9:02 6:52
Sled pull 6:11 7:54
Run 4 7:23 7:31
Burpee broad jump 10:48 10:31
Run 5 7:02 7:31
Row 8:38 8:06
Run 6 7:56 7:16
Farmers carry 2:50 3:04
Run 7 8:08 7:41
Sandbag lunges 9:18 9:07
Run 8 9:58 9:03
Wall balls 9:14 10:38
Roxzone 13:39 13:25
Finish 2:10:55 2:10:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nic Michael Gap
Perth 2025 Open Men · 5 Sep 2025 2:10:55 2:10:57 0:02 · Nic faster
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