Derek vs Nathaniel

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Derek Nickel

1:33:05 best Open Men time · Boston 2025
881st of 1,463 place in that race · 1,463 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Nathaniel Polky

1:32:58 best Open Men time · Boston 2025
879th of 1,463 place in that race · 1,463 Open Men finishers

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

Derek: Boston 2025, Open Men · Nathaniel: Boston 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Derek and Nathaniel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Derek: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 7%).Nathaniel: strongest on Push (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 22%).

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Part Derek: faster than Nathaniel: faster than
Ski 87% 41%
Push 99% 93%
Pull 59% 37%
BBJ 66% 22%
Row 7% 46%
Carry 91% 26%
Lunges 31% 38%
Wall balls 48% 58%
Roxzone 43% 33%
Runs 25% 39%

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

Part by part

Part Derek Nathaniel
SkiErg 87% 41%
Sled push 99% 93%
Sled pull 59% 37%
Burpee broad jump 66% 22%
Row 7% 46%
Farmers carry 91% 26%
Sandbag lunges 31% 38%
Wall balls 48% 58%
Roxzone (moving) 43% 33%
Runs (8 km) 25% 39%

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

Derek · Boston 2025 · Open Men1:33:05
5:474:164:571:316:265:006:104:536:585:506:181:375:445:566:428:027:06
Nathaniel · Boston 2025 · Open Men1:32:58
5:574:405:081:585:415:415:347:035:364:585:312:285:385:376:397:167:42
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.Derek · Boston 2025 · Open Men: 49:02 running, 37:05 at the stations and 7:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:02) and the shortest the sled push (1:31).Below, Nathaniel · Boston 2025 · Open Men: 45:44 running, 39:42 at the stations and 7:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:16) and the shortest the sled push (1:58).

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Part Derek · Boston 2025 · Open Men Nathaniel · Boston 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:47 5:57
SkiErg 4:16 4:40
Run 2 4:57 5:08
Sled push 1:31 1:58
Run 3 6:26 5:41
Sled pull 5:00 5:41
Run 4 6:10 5:34
Burpee broad jump 4:53 7:03
Run 5 6:58 5:36
Row 5:50 4:58
Run 6 6:18 5:31
Farmers carry 1:37 2:28
Run 7 5:44 5:38
Sandbag lunges 5:56 5:37
Run 8 6:42 6:39
Wall balls 8:02 7:16
Roxzone 7:06 7:42
Finish 1:33:05 1:32:58

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Derek Nathaniel Gap
Boston 2025 Open Men · 26 Sep 2025 1:33:05 1:32:58 0:07 · Nathaniel faster
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