Nicholas vs Richard

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Nicholas Palomo

1:47:41 best Open Men time · Dallas 2025
1661st of 2,075 place in that race · 2,075 Open Men finishers
JAM JAM · Open Men · 9 results

Richard Parchment

1:32:19 best Open Men time · Washington DC 2026
1388th of 2,855 place in that race · 2,855 Open Men finishers

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

Nicholas: Dallas 2025, Open Men · Richard: Washington DC 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nicholas and Richard sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nicholas: strongest on Row (faster than 53% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).Richard: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 12%).

See the numbers
Part Nicholas: faster than Richard: faster than
Ski 36% 40%
Push 13% 35%
Pull 27% 69%
BBJ 46% 46%
Row 53% 41%
Carry 3% 12%
Lunges 16% 28%
Wall balls 43% 72%
Roxzone 1% 61%
Runs 36% 47%

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

Part by part

Part Nicholas Richard
SkiErg 36% 40%
Sled push 13% 35%
Sled pull 27% 69%
Burpee broad jump 46% 46%
Row 53% 41%
Farmers carry 3% 12%
Sandbag lunges 16% 28%
Wall balls 43% 72%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 61%
Runs (8 km) 36% 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

Nicholas · Dallas 2025 · Open Men1:47:41
5:454:355:283:525:445:575:465:496:115:106:223:466:017:046:497:5115:41
Richard · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men1:32:19
4:244:515:283:285:384:295:396:145:455:115:512:525:496:495:386:257:56
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.Nicholas · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 48:07 running, 44:05 at the stations and 15:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:51).Below, Richard · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men: 44:12 running, 40:19 at the stations and 7:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:49).

See the numbers
Part Nicholas · Dallas 2025 · Open Men Richard · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:45 4:24
SkiErg 4:35 4:51
Run 2 5:28 5:28
Sled push 3:52 3:28
Run 3 5:44 5:38
Sled pull 5:57 4:29
Run 4 5:46 5:39
Burpee broad jump 5:49 6:14
Run 5 6:11 5:45
Row 5:10 5:11
Run 6 6:22 5:51
Farmers carry 3:46 2:52
Run 7 6:01 5:49
Sandbag lunges 7:04 6:49
Run 8 6:49 5:38
Wall balls 7:51 6:25
Roxzone 15:41 7:56
Finish 1:47:41 1:32:19

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nicholas Richard Gap
Dallas 2025 Open Men · 21 Nov 2025 1:47:41 1:47:46 0:05 · Nicholas faster
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