Alex vs Ian

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Alex Ferrer

1:18:00 best Open Men time · Anaheim 2024
82nd of 607 place in that race · 607 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Ian Swoboda

1:14:41 best Open Men time · Houston 2025
144th of 1,006 place in that race · 1,006 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Anaheim 2024, Open Men · Ian: Houston 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Ian sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on BBJ (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 71%).Ian: strongest on BBJ (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 61%).

See the numbers
Part Alex: faster than Ian: faster than
Ski 89% 65%
Push 88% 85%
Pull 71% 83%
BBJ 97% 92%
Row 93% 82%
Carry 75% 77%
Lunges 95% 86%
Wall balls 91% 82%
Roxzone 86% 61%
Runs 73% 83%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Ian
SkiErg 89% 65%
Sled push 88% 85%
Sled pull 71% 83%
Burpee broad jump 97% 92%
Row 93% 82%
Farmers carry 75% 77%
Sandbag lunges 95% 86%
Wall balls 91% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 86% 61%
Runs (8 km) 73% 83%

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

Alex · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men1:18:00
6:524:124:322:284:574:525:033:324:574:284:571:484:573:495:284:496:28
Ian · Houston 2025 · Open Men1:14:41
4:244:254:182:164:324:184:374:044:454:334:421:544:494:075:104:596:55
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.Alex · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men: 41:43 running, 29:59 at the stations and 6:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (4:52).Below, Ian · Houston 2025 · Open Men: 37:17 running, 30:37 at the stations and 6:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:59).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Anaheim 2024 · Open Men Ian · Houston 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:52 4:24
SkiErg 4:12 4:25
Run 2 4:32 4:18
Sled push 2:28 2:16
Run 3 4:57 4:32
Sled pull 4:52 4:18
Run 4 5:03 4:37
Burpee broad jump 3:32 4:04
Run 5 4:57 4:45
Row 4:28 4:33
Run 6 4:57 4:42
Farmers carry 1:48 1:54
Run 7 4:57 4:49
Sandbag lunges 3:49 4:07
Run 8 5:28 5:10
Wall balls 4:49 4:59
Roxzone 6:28 6:55
Finish 1:18:00 1:14:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Ian Gap
Anaheim 2024 Open Men · 7 Dec 2024 1:18:00 1:17:53 0:07 · Ian faster
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