Alex vs Ed

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Alex Burns

1:28:23 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1710th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Ed Shelton

1:28:23 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1711th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Ed: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Ed sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 7%).Ed: strongest on BBJ (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 12%).

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Part Alex: faster than Ed: faster than
Ski 89% 12%
Push 95% 34%
Pull 99% 39%
BBJ 96% 75%
Row 99% 59%
Carry 90% 19%
Lunges 62% 45%
Wall balls 90% 33%
Roxzone 81% 18%
Runs 7% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Ed
SkiErg 89% 12%
Sled push 95% 34%
Sled pull 99% 39%
Burpee broad jump 96% 75%
Row 99% 59%
Farmers carry 90% 19%
Sandbag lunges 62% 45%
Wall balls 90% 33%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 18%
Runs (8 km) 7% 48%

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 · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:28:23
2:274:088:411:548:422:508:393:238:444:026:591:383:574:535:254:317:39
Ed · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:28:23
2:474:554:392:584:595:095:004:245:144:424:562:395:015:266:247:4011:37
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 · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 53:34 running, 27:18 at the stations and 7:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (4:53).Below, Ed · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 38:59 running, 37:53 at the stations and 11:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:40).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Ed · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:27 2:47
SkiErg 4:08 4:55
Run 2 8:41 4:39
Sled push 1:54 2:58
Run 3 8:42 4:59
Sled pull 2:50 5:09
Run 4 8:39 5:00
Burpee broad jump 3:23 4:24
Run 5 8:44 5:14
Row 4:02 4:42
Run 6 6:59 4:56
Farmers carry 1:38 2:39
Run 7 3:57 5:01
Sandbag lunges 4:53 5:26
Run 8 5:25 6:24
Wall balls 4:31 7:40
Roxzone 7:39 11:37
Finish 1:28:23 1:28:23

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Ed Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:28:23 1:28:23 level
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