Chris vs Simon

USA USA · Pro Men · 1 result

Chris Merrill

1:39:16 best Pro Men time · Houston 2025
200th of 226 place in that race · 226 Pro Men finishers
USA USA · Pro Men · 3 results

Simon Arends

1:35:50 best Pro Men time · Boston 2025
209th of 249 place in that race · 249 Pro Men finishers

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

Chris: Houston 2025, Pro Men · Simon: Boston 2025, Pro Men

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

This chart shows where Chris and Simon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Chris: strongest on Pull (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 2%).Simon: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 2%).

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Part Chris: faster than Simon: faster than
Ski 19% 15%
Push 2% 23%
Pull 38% 23%
BBJ 15% 28%
Row 2% 21%
Carry 29% 25%
Lunges 6% 29%
Wall balls 3% 38%
Roxzone 23% 2%
Runs 25% 21%

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

Part by part

Part Chris Simon
SkiErg 19% 15%
Sled push 2% 23%
Sled pull 38% 23%
Burpee broad jump 15% 28%
Row 2% 21%
Farmers carry 29% 25%
Sandbag lunges 6% 29%
Wall balls 3% 38%
Roxzone (moving) 23% 2%
Runs (8 km) 25% 21%

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

Chris · Houston 2025 · Pro Men1:39:16
4:164:284:325:415:296:475:176:265:185:275:222:325:377:246:0611:237:21
Simon · Boston 2025 · Pro Men1:35:50
5:394:324:464:115:247:585:104:555:144:524:582:275:085:375:588:1610:54
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.Chris · Houston 2025 · Pro Men: 41:57 running, 50:07 at the stations and 7:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:23).Below, Simon · Boston 2025 · Pro Men: 42:17 running, 42:49 at the stations and 10:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:16).

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Part Chris · Houston 2025 · Pro Men Simon · Boston 2025 · Pro Men
Run 1 4:16 5:39
SkiErg 4:28 4:32
Run 2 4:32 4:46
Sled push 5:41 4:11
Run 3 5:29 5:24
Sled pull 6:47 7:58
Run 4 5:17 5:10
Burpee broad jump 6:26 4:55
Run 5 5:18 5:14
Row 5:27 4:52
Run 6 5:22 4:58
Farmers carry 2:32 2:27
Run 7 5:37 5:08
Sandbag lunges 7:24 5:37
Run 8 6:06 5:58
Wall balls 11:23 8:16
Roxzone 7:21 10:54
Finish 1:39:16 1:35:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Chris Simon Gap
Houston 2025 Pro Men · 15 Mar 2025 1:39:16 1:39:58 0:42 · Chris faster
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