Mike vs Michael

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Mike Woods

1:37:53 best Open Men time · Boston 2025
1006th of 1,463 place in that race · 1,463 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Michael Karger

1:35:13 best Open Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
539th of 814 place in that race · 814 Open Men finishers

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

Mike: Boston 2025, Open Men · Michael: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mike and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mike: strongest on Ski (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 8%).Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 8%).

See the numbers
Part Mike: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 75% 24%
Push 41% 8%
Pull 13% 16%
BBJ 16% 25%
Row 39% 17%
Carry 61% 74%
Lunges 8% 39%
Wall balls 33% 10%
Roxzone 48% 56%
Runs 46% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Mike Michael
SkiErg 75% 24%
Sled push 41% 8%
Sled pull 13% 16%
Burpee broad jump 16% 25%
Row 39% 17%
Farmers carry 61% 74%
Sandbag lunges 8% 39%
Wall balls 33% 10%
Roxzone (moving) 48% 56%
Runs (8 km) 46% 48%

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 · Boston 2025 · Open Men1:37:53
5:254:234:412:475:177:045:107:375:335:046:172:005:578:256:069:256:50
Michael · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men1:35:13
3:404:435:054:115:426:155:437:065:585:205:311:505:515:416:169:267:04
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 · Boston 2025 · Open Men: 44:26 running, 46:46 at the stations and 6:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:25).Below, Michael · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 43:47 running, 44:31 at the stations and 7:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:26).

See the numbers
Part Mike · Boston 2025 · Open Men Michael · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 5:25 3:40
SkiErg 4:23 4:43
Run 2 4:41 5:05
Sled push 2:47 4:11
Run 3 5:17 5:42
Sled pull 7:04 6:15
Run 4 5:10 5:43
Burpee broad jump 7:37 7:06
Run 5 5:33 5:58
Row 5:04 5:20
Run 6 6:17 5:31
Farmers carry 2:00 1:50
Run 7 5:57 5:51
Sandbag lunges 8:25 5:41
Run 8 6:06 6:16
Wall balls 9:25 9:26
Roxzone 6:50 7:04
Finish 1:37:53 1:35:13

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Michael Gap
Boston 2025 Open Men · 26 Sep 2025 1:37:53 1:37:52 0:01 · Michael faster
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