Mark vs Chris

IRL IRL · Open Men · 3 results

Mark Hayes

1:45:58 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
1932nd of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 7 results

Chris Connolly

1:29:04 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
1552nd of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: Sydney 2025, Open Men · Chris: Melbourne 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on Runs (faster than 21% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 3%).Chris: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 13%).

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Part Mark: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 3% 99%
Push 7% 50%
Pull 14% 18%
BBJ 10% 54%
Row 8% 62%
Carry 11% 59%
Lunges 5% 74%
Wall balls 3% 62%
Roxzone 13% 13%
Runs 21% 42%

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

Part by part

Part Mark Chris
SkiErg 3% 99%
Sled push 7% 50%
Sled pull 14% 18%
Burpee broad jump 10% 54%
Row 8% 62%
Farmers carry 11% 59%
Sandbag lunges 5% 74%
Wall balls 3% 62%
Roxzone (moving) 13% 13%
Runs (8 km) 21% 42%

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

Mark · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:45:58
4:425:075:063:165:035:575:117:505:115:185:122:555:138:587:5512:2510:49
Chris · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:29:04
2:373:495:032:175:486:095:525:205:464:435:482:035:354:376:425:4011:23
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.Mark · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 43:33 running, 51:47 at the stations and 10:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:25).Below, Chris · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 43:11 running, 34:38 at the stations and 11:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:09).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Sydney 2025 · Open Men Chris · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:42 2:37
SkiErg 5:07 3:49
Run 2 5:06 5:03
Sled push 3:16 2:17
Run 3 5:03 5:48
Sled pull 5:57 6:09
Run 4 5:11 5:52
Burpee broad jump 7:50 5:20
Run 5 5:11 5:46
Row 5:18 4:43
Run 6 5:12 5:48
Farmers carry 2:55 2:03
Run 7 5:13 5:35
Sandbag lunges 8:58 4:37
Run 8 7:55 6:42
Wall balls 12:25 5:40
Roxzone 10:49 11:23
Finish 1:45:58 1:29:04

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark Chris Gap
Sydney 2025 Open Men · 4 Jul 2025 1:45:58 1:46:22 0:24 · Mark faster
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