James vs Mark

NZL NZL · Open Men · 4 results

James Murdoch

1:31:16 best Open Men time · Auckland 2025
425th of 848 place in that race · 848 Open Men finishers
NZL NZL · Open Men · 2 results

Mark Butzbach

1:17:59 best Open Men time · Auckland 2026
225th of 1,138 place in that race · 1,138 Open Men finishers

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

James: Auckland 2025, Open Men · Mark: Auckland 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Mark sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on BBJ (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 23%).Mark: strongest on Pull (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 44%).

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Part James: faster than Mark: faster than
Ski 39% 87%
Push 66% 51%
Pull 40% 96%
BBJ 73% 44%
Row 49% 96%
Carry 23% 74%
Lunges 36% 96%
Wall balls 49% 82%
Roxzone 62% 70%
Runs 42% 73%

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

Part by part

Part James Mark
SkiErg 39% 87%
Sled push 66% 51%
Sled pull 40% 96%
Burpee broad jump 73% 44%
Row 49% 96%
Farmers carry 23% 74%
Sandbag lunges 36% 96%
Wall balls 49% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 70%
Runs (8 km) 42% 73%

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

James · Auckland 2025 · Open Men1:31:16
5:344:235:052:335:365:355:395:025:554:565:592:356:156:106:217:036:36
Mark · Auckland 2026 · Open Men1:17:59
5:164:064:493:194:513:305:026:135:204:255:041:494:573:465:285:164:58
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.James · Auckland 2025 · Open Men: 46:24 running, 38:16 at the stations and 6:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:03) and the shortest the sled push (2:33).Below, Mark · Auckland 2026 · Open Men: 40:47 running, 32:25 at the stations and 4:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:13).

See the numbers
Part James · Auckland 2025 · Open Men Mark · Auckland 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:34 5:16
SkiErg 4:23 4:06
Run 2 5:05 4:49
Sled push 2:33 3:19
Run 3 5:36 4:51
Sled pull 5:35 3:30
Run 4 5:39 5:02
Burpee broad jump 5:02 6:13
Run 5 5:55 5:20
Row 4:56 4:25
Run 6 5:59 5:04
Farmers carry 2:35 1:49
Run 7 6:15 4:57
Sandbag lunges 6:10 3:46
Run 8 6:21 5:28
Wall balls 7:03 5:16
Roxzone 6:36 4:58
Finish 1:31:16 1:17:59

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Mark Gap
Auckland 2025 Open Men · 1 Feb 2025 1:31:16 1:31:15 0:01 · Mark faster
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