Mike vs Benoit

CAN CAN · Open Men · 8 results

Mike McDonald

1:26:27 best Open Men time · New York 2025
915th of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers
CAN CAN · Open Men · 6 results

Benoit Brissette

1:21:29 best Open Men time · Ottawa 2026
404th of 1,503 place in that race · 1,503 Open Men finishers

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

Mike: New York 2025, Open Men · Benoit: Ottawa 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mike and Benoit sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mike: strongest on Pull (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 25%).Benoit: strongest on BBJ (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 30%).

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Part Mike: faster than Benoit: faster than
Ski 57% 30%
Push 76% 32%
Pull 80% 76%
BBJ 25% 95%
Row 63% 33%
Carry 48% 41%
Lunges 43% 59%
Wall balls 80% 74%
Roxzone 47% 77%
Runs 41% 70%

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

Part by part

Part Mike Benoit
SkiErg 57% 30%
Sled push 76% 32%
Sled pull 80% 76%
Burpee broad jump 25% 95%
Row 63% 33%
Farmers carry 48% 41%
Sandbag lunges 43% 59%
Wall balls 80% 74%
Roxzone (moving) 47% 77%
Runs (8 km) 41% 70%

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

Mike · New York 2025 · Open Men1:26:27
5:314:297:412:085:153:265:276:445:394:455:422:235:395:354:505:225:56
Benoit · Ottawa 2026 · Open Men1:21:29
4:404:464:573:465:024:224:563:435:105:035:082:235:155:155:486:055:17
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.Mike · New York 2025 · Open Men: 45:44 running, 34:51 at the stations and 5:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:44) and the shortest the sled push (2:08).Below, Benoit · Ottawa 2026 · Open Men: 40:56 running, 35:23 at the stations and 5:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:05).

See the numbers
Part Mike · New York 2025 · Open Men Benoit · Ottawa 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:31 4:40
SkiErg 4:29 4:46
Run 2 7:41 4:57
Sled push 2:08 3:46
Run 3 5:15 5:02
Sled pull 3:26 4:22
Run 4 5:27 4:56
Burpee broad jump 6:44 3:43
Run 5 5:39 5:10
Row 4:45 5:03
Run 6 5:42 5:08
Farmers carry 2:23 2:23
Run 7 5:39 5:15
Sandbag lunges 5:35 5:15
Run 8 4:50 5:48
Wall balls 5:22 6:05
Roxzone 5:56 5:17
Finish 1:26:27 1:21:29

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Benoit Gap
Toronto 2025 Open Men · 4 Oct 2025 1:28:23 1:28:21 0:02 · Benoit faster
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