Darren vs Chris

USA USA · Open Men · 4 results

Darren Pollack

1:32:29 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
954th of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers
PHI PHI · Open Men · 6 results

Chris Yambao

1:18:14 best Open Men time · Las Vegas 2025
206th of 1,152 place in that race · 1,152 Open Men finishers

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

Darren: Boston 2026, Open Men · Chris: Las Vegas 2025, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
DarrenChrisedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Darren and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Darren: strongest on Carry (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 39%).Chris: strongest on BBJ (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Darren: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 48% 10%
Push 50% 10%
Pull 47% 15%
BBJ 42% 74%
Row 39% 32%
Carry 63% 11%
Lunges 40% 59%
Wall balls 53% 19%
Roxzone 47% 48%
Runs 50% 2%

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

Part by part

Part Darren Chris
SkiErg 48% 10%
Sled push 50% 10%
Sled pull 47% 15%
Burpee broad jump 42% 74%
Row 39% 32%
Farmers carry 63% 11%
Sandbag lunges 40% 59%
Wall balls 53% 19%
Roxzone (moving) 47% 48%
Runs (8 km) 50% 2%

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

Darren · Boston 2026 · Open Men1:32:29
4:374:405:323:455:355:215:416:315:325:075:292:065:335:556:237:177:34
Chris · Las Vegas 2025 · Open Men1:18:14
5:305:092:364:272:446:393:064:592:525:222:473:112:595:103:058:548:42
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.Darren · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 44:21 running, 40:43 at the stations and 7:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:17).Below, Chris · Las Vegas 2025 · Open Men: 25:38 running, 43:51 at the stations and 8:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:54).

See the numbers
Part Darren · Boston 2026 · Open Men Chris · Las Vegas 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:37 5:30
SkiErg 4:40 5:09
Run 2 5:32 2:36
Sled push 3:45 4:27
Run 3 5:35 2:44
Sled pull 5:21 6:39
Run 4 5:41 3:06
Burpee broad jump 6:31 4:59
Run 5 5:32 2:52
Row 5:07 5:22
Run 6 5:29 2:47
Farmers carry 2:06 3:11
Run 7 5:33 2:59
Sandbag lunges 5:55 5:10
Run 8 6:23 3:05
Wall balls 7:17 8:54
Roxzone 7:34 8:42
Finish 1:32:29 1:18:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Darren Chris Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 1:32:29 1:32:28 0:01 · Chris faster
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