Stephen vs Ricky

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Stephen McGowan

2:09:40 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
2044th of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Ricky Baca-Chavez

2:09:34 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
2043rd of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Stephen: Houston 2026, Open Men · Ricky: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stephen and Ricky sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stephen: strongest on Pull (faster than 57% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 3%).Ricky: strongest on Row (faster than 41% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 5%).

See the numbers
Part Stephen: faster than Ricky: faster than
Ski 9% 16%
Push 24% 37%
Pull 57% 12%
BBJ 8% 20%
Row 14% 41%
Carry 54% 17%
Lunges 3% 13%
Wall balls 14% 23%
Roxzone 22% 16%
Runs 7% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Stephen Ricky
SkiErg 9% 16%
Sled push 24% 37%
Sled pull 57% 12%
Burpee broad jump 8% 20%
Row 14% 41%
Farmers carry 54% 17%
Sandbag lunges 3% 13%
Wall balls 14% 23%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 16%
Runs (8 km) 7% 5%

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

Stephen · Houston 2026 · Open Men2:09:40
7:335:187:193:597:455:307:539:408:205:388:002:138:3210:378:5411:5510:43
Ricky · Houston 2026 · Open Men2:09:34
6:135:066:133:327:397:527:467:528:425:077:592:558:157:5214:4410:1611:38
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.Stephen · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 1:04:16 running, 54:50 at the stations and 10:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:55).Below, Ricky · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 1:07:31 running, 50:33 at the stations and 11:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:16).

See the numbers
Part Stephen · Houston 2026 · Open Men Ricky · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:33 6:13
SkiErg 5:18 5:06
Run 2 7:19 6:13
Sled push 3:59 3:32
Run 3 7:45 7:39
Sled pull 5:30 7:52
Run 4 7:53 7:46
Burpee broad jump 9:40 7:52
Run 5 8:20 8:42
Row 5:38 5:07
Run 6 8:00 7:59
Farmers carry 2:13 2:55
Run 7 8:32 8:15
Sandbag lunges 10:37 7:52
Run 8 8:54 14:44
Wall balls 11:55 10:16
Roxzone 10:43 11:38
Finish 2:09:40 2:09:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stephen Ricky Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 2:09:40 2:09:34 0:06 · Ricky faster
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