Paul vs Matt

IRL IRL · Open Men · 3 results

Paul Shields

1:40:11 best Open Men time · Dublin 2025
2003rd of 2,325 place in that race · 2,325 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Matt Rowley

1:40:10 best Open Men time · Dublin 2025
2001st of 2,325 place in that race · 2,325 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Dublin 2025, Open Men · Matt: Dublin 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).Matt: strongest on Pull (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 4%).

See the numbers
Part Paul: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 1% 38%
Push 74% 33%
Pull 43% 82%
BBJ 16% 22%
Row 7% 78%
Carry 14% 45%
Lunges 16% 8%
Wall balls 12% 45%
Roxzone 21% 37%
Runs 16% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Matt
SkiErg 1% 38%
Sled push 74% 33%
Sled pull 43% 82%
Burpee broad jump 16% 22%
Row 7% 78%
Farmers carry 14% 45%
Sandbag lunges 16% 8%
Wall balls 12% 45%
Roxzone (moving) 21% 37%
Runs (8 km) 16% 4%

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

Paul · Dublin 2025 · Open Men1:40:11
3:565:316:032:186:124:466:257:286:555:326:342:456:426:414:5411:316:05
Matt · Dublin 2025 · Open Men1:40:10
3:434:346:372:517:163:517:396:567:574:338:002:097:537:485:417:385:11
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.Paul · Dublin 2025 · Open Men: 47:41 running, 46:32 at the stations and 6:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:31) and the shortest the sled push (2:18).Below, Matt · Dublin 2025 · Open Men: 54:46 running, 40:20 at the stations and 5:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (7:48).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Dublin 2025 · Open Men Matt · Dublin 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:56 3:43
SkiErg 5:31 4:34
Run 2 6:03 6:37
Sled push 2:18 2:51
Run 3 6:12 7:16
Sled pull 4:46 3:51
Run 4 6:25 7:39
Burpee broad jump 7:28 6:56
Run 5 6:55 7:57
Row 5:32 4:33
Run 6 6:34 8:00
Farmers carry 2:45 2:09
Run 7 6:42 7:53
Sandbag lunges 6:41 7:48
Run 8 4:54 5:41
Wall balls 11:31 7:38
Roxzone 6:05 5:11
Finish 1:40:11 1:40:10

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Matt Gap
Dublin 2025 Open Men · 12 Nov 2025 1:40:11 1:40:10 0:01 · Matt faster
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