Paul vs Brenden

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Paul Donaldson

1:21:21 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
957th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Brenden Kelly

1:19:07 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1019th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Brenden: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Brenden sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Lunges (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 13%).Brenden: strongest on Carry (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 28%).

See the numbers
Part Paul: faster than Brenden: faster than
Ski 13% 28%
Push 69% 45%
Pull 59% 77%
BBJ 36% 72%
Row 26% 50%
Carry 30% 87%
Lunges 86% 54%
Wall balls 56% 66%
Roxzone 55% 73%
Runs 72% 56%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Brenden
SkiErg 13% 28%
Sled push 69% 45%
Sled pull 59% 77%
Burpee broad jump 36% 72%
Row 26% 50%
Farmers carry 30% 87%
Sandbag lunges 86% 54%
Wall balls 56% 66%
Roxzone (moving) 55% 73%
Runs (8 km) 72% 56%

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

Paul · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:21:21
2:394:434:432:034:504:334:596:065:215:065:002:235:074:135:555:517:58
Brenden · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:19:07
2:584:394:532:454:514:054:534:324:504:474:461:414:485:095:455:478:05
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.Paul · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 38:34 running, 34:58 at the stations and 7:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:06) and the shortest the sled push (2:03).Below, Brenden · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 37:44 running, 33:24 at the stations and 8:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:47).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Brenden · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:39 2:58
SkiErg 4:43 4:39
Run 2 4:43 4:53
Sled push 2:03 2:45
Run 3 4:50 4:51
Sled pull 4:33 4:05
Run 4 4:59 4:53
Burpee broad jump 6:06 4:32
Run 5 5:21 4:50
Row 5:06 4:47
Run 6 5:00 4:46
Farmers carry 2:23 1:41
Run 7 5:07 4:48
Sandbag lunges 4:13 5:09
Run 8 5:55 5:45
Wall balls 5:51 5:47
Roxzone 7:58 8:05
Finish 1:21:21 1:19:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Brenden Gap
Melbourne 2024 Open Men · 28 Jun 2024 1:21:21 1:21:22 0:01 · Paul faster
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