Ash vs Joel

GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Ash Balfour

1:07:09 best Open Men time · Málaga 2026
217th of 2,072 place in that race · 2,072 Open Men finishers
ESP ESP · Open Men · 1 result

Joel Alberto Díaz Méndez

1:17:02 best Open Men time · Tenerife 2026
184th of 836 place in that race · 836 Open Men finishers

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

Ash: Málaga 2026, Open Men · Joel: Tenerife 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ash and Joel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ash: strongest on Row (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 71%).Joel: strongest on Ski (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 61%).

See the numbers
Part Ash: faster than Joel: faster than
Ski 94% 87%
Push 71% 76%
Pull 86% 61%
BBJ 74% 73%
Row 96% 79%
Carry 79% 74%
Lunges 93% 78%
Wall balls 90% 87%
Roxzone 85% 71%
Runs 82% 68%

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

Part by part

Part Ash Joel
SkiErg 94% 87%
Sled push 71% 76%
Sled pull 86% 61%
Burpee broad jump 74% 73%
Row 96% 79%
Farmers carry 79% 74%
Sandbag lunges 93% 78%
Wall balls 90% 87%
Roxzone (moving) 85% 71%
Runs (8 km) 82% 68%

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

Ash · Málaga 2026 · Open Men1:07:09
3:584:044:082:374:133:414:144:164:144:234:151:444:163:364:184:304:50
Joel · Tenerife 2026 · Open Men1:17:02
4:154:094:113:205:024:494:504:385:004:384:482:044:564:214:555:086:08
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.Ash · Málaga 2026 · Open Men: 33:36 running, 28:51 at the stations and 4:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:30).Below, Joel · Tenerife 2026 · Open Men: 37:56 running, 33:07 at the stations and 6:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:08).

See the numbers
Part Ash · Málaga 2026 · Open Men Joel · Tenerife 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:58 4:15
SkiErg 4:04 4:09
Run 2 4:08 4:11
Sled push 2:37 3:20
Run 3 4:13 5:02
Sled pull 3:41 4:49
Run 4 4:14 4:50
Burpee broad jump 4:16 4:38
Run 5 4:14 5:00
Row 4:23 4:38
Run 6 4:15 4:48
Farmers carry 1:44 2:04
Run 7 4:16 4:56
Sandbag lunges 3:36 4:21
Run 8 4:18 4:55
Wall balls 4:30 5:08
Roxzone 4:50 6:08
Finish 1:07:09 1:17:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ash Joel Gap
Tenerife 2026 Open Men · 4 Sep 2026 1:17:04 1:17:02 0:02 · Joel faster
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