Mark vs Michael

IRL IRL · Open Men · 1 result

Mark Rolland

1:31:44 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2590th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Michael Cook

1:16:43 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
1055th of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Michael: Berlin 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on Push (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 11%).Michael: strongest on Pull (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 47%).

See the numbers
Part Mark: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 35% 85%
Push 63% 69%
Pull 16% 94%
BBJ 38% 74%
Row 45% 67%
Carry 28% 52%
Lunges 16% 49%
Wall balls 24% 51%
Roxzone 11% 57%
Runs 59% 47%

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

Part by part

Part Mark Michael
SkiErg 35% 85%
Sled push 63% 69%
Sled pull 16% 94%
Burpee broad jump 38% 74%
Row 45% 67%
Farmers carry 28% 52%
Sandbag lunges 16% 49%
Wall balls 24% 51%
Roxzone (moving) 11% 57%
Runs (8 km) 59% 47%

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 · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:31:44
5:054:374:242:594:376:284:306:114:474:524:562:315:006:585:119:239:24
Michael · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:16:43
3:274:084:122:354:243:144:344:274:424:314:362:004:425:036:056:038:08
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 · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 38:29 running, 43:59 at the stations and 9:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:23).Below, Michael · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 36:42 running, 32:01 at the stations and 8:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:03).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Michael · Berlin 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:05 3:27
SkiErg 4:37 4:08
Run 2 4:24 4:12
Sled push 2:59 2:35
Run 3 4:37 4:24
Sled pull 6:28 3:14
Run 4 4:30 4:34
Burpee broad jump 6:11 4:27
Run 5 4:47 4:42
Row 4:52 4:31
Run 6 4:56 4:36
Farmers carry 2:31 2:00
Run 7 5:00 4:42
Sandbag lunges 6:58 5:03
Run 8 5:11 6:05
Wall balls 9:23 6:03
Roxzone 9:24 8:08
Finish 1:31:44 1:16:43

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark Michael Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:31:44 1:31:45 0:01 · Mark faster
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