Blake vs Simon

AUS AUS · Open Men · 4 results

Blake Thackrah

1:29:20 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1786th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 4 results

Simon Donaldson

1:35:18 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
2364th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Blake: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Simon: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Blake and Simon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Blake: strongest on Push (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 29%).Simon: strongest on Row (faster than 50% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 16%).

See the numbers
Part Blake: faster than Simon: faster than
Ski 66% 21%
Push 78% 41%
Pull 30% 36%
BBJ 29% 44%
Row 49% 50%
Carry 48% 19%
Lunges 43% 50%
Wall balls 45% 16%
Roxzone 31% 39%
Runs 35% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Blake Simon
SkiErg 66% 21%
Sled push 78% 41%
Sled pull 30% 36%
Burpee broad jump 29% 44%
Row 49% 50%
Farmers carry 48% 19%
Sandbag lunges 43% 50%
Wall balls 45% 16%
Roxzone (moving) 31% 39%
Runs (8 km) 35% 26%

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

Blake · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:29:20
2:444:204:472:155:165:255:226:195:384:485:322:075:395:326:386:5010:16
Simon · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:35:18
4:414:444:542:455:114:535:256:005:374:455:262:385:515:367:3510:159:09
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.Blake · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 41:35 running, 37:36 at the stations and 10:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:50).Below, Simon · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 44:40 running, 41:35 at the stations and 9:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:15).

See the numbers
Part Blake · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Simon · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:44 4:41
SkiErg 4:20 4:44
Run 2 4:47 4:54
Sled push 2:15 2:45
Run 3 5:16 5:11
Sled pull 5:25 4:53
Run 4 5:22 5:25
Burpee broad jump 6:19 6:00
Run 5 5:38 5:37
Row 4:48 4:45
Run 6 5:32 5:26
Farmers carry 2:07 2:38
Run 7 5:39 5:51
Sandbag lunges 5:32 5:36
Run 8 6:38 7:35
Wall balls 6:50 10:15
Roxzone 10:16 9:09
Finish 1:29:20 1:35:18

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Blake Simon Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 1:35:17 1:35:18 0:01 · Blake faster
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:29:20 1:41:31 12:11 · Blake faster
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