Elaine vs Ruth

GBR GBR · Open Women · 4 results

Elaine Howard

2:01:22 best Open Women time · Birmingham 2025
1769th of 1,957 place in that race · 1,957 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Ruth Meakin

2:01:31 best Open Women time · Birmingham 2025
1771st of 1,957 place in that race · 1,957 Open Women finishers

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

Elaine: Birmingham 2025, Open Women · Ruth: Birmingham 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Elaine and Ruth sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Elaine: strongest on Push (faster than 35% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).Ruth: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 32% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 1%).

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Part Elaine: faster than Ruth: faster than
Ski 21% 1%
Push 35% 28%
Pull 27% 1%
BBJ 14% 13%
Row 17% 7%
Carry 3% 4%
Lunges 11% 28%
Wall balls 4% 4%
Roxzone 18% 32%
Runs 12% 17%

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

Part by part

Part Elaine Ruth
SkiErg 21% 1%
Sled push 35% 28%
Sled pull 27% 1%
Burpee broad jump 14% 13%
Row 17% 7%
Farmers carry 3% 4%
Sandbag lunges 11% 28%
Wall balls 4% 4%
Roxzone (moving) 18% 32%
Runs (8 km) 12% 17%

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

Elaine · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women2:01:22
7:295:346:233:186:406:516:319:357:075:576:483:587:017:108:0613:389:23
Ruth · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women2:01:31
7:286:246:303:296:3910:326:439:416:416:216:203:346:295:546:5713:418:16
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.Elaine · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women: 56:05 running, 56:01 at the stations and 9:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:38) and the shortest the sled push (3:18).Below, Ruth · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women: 53:47 running, 59:35 at the stations and 8:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:41) and the shortest the sled push (3:29).

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Part Elaine · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women Ruth · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 7:29 7:28
SkiErg 5:34 6:24
Run 2 6:23 6:30
Sled push 3:18 3:29
Run 3 6:40 6:39
Sled pull 6:51 10:32
Run 4 6:31 6:43
Burpee broad jump 9:35 9:41
Run 5 7:07 6:41
Row 5:57 6:21
Run 6 6:48 6:20
Farmers carry 3:58 3:34
Run 7 7:01 6:29
Sandbag lunges 7:10 5:54
Run 8 8:06 6:57
Wall balls 13:38 13:41
Roxzone 9:23 8:16
Finish 2:01:22 2:01:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Elaine Ruth Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Women · 22 Oct 2025 2:01:22 2:01:31 0:09 · Elaine faster
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