James vs Alexander

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Howat

2:26:17 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5523rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Alexander van Rijn

2:08:22 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2026
1998th of 2,058 place in that race · 2,058 Open Men finishers

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

James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Alexander: Maastricht 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Alexander sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Push (faster than 15% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).Alexander: strongest on Carry (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 0%).

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Part James: faster than Alexander: faster than
Ski 6% 0%
Push 15% 2%
Pull 2% 7%
BBJ 0% 3%
Row 4% 9%
Carry 15% 68%
Lunges 0% 2%
Wall balls 14% 2%
Roxzone 2% 17%
Runs 1% 5%

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

Part by part

Part James Alexander
SkiErg 6% 0%
Sled push 15% 2%
Sled pull 2% 7%
Burpee broad jump 0% 3%
Row 4% 9%
Farmers carry 15% 68%
Sandbag lunges 0% 2%
Wall balls 14% 2%
Roxzone (moving) 2% 17%
Runs (8 km) 1% 5%

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 · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men2:26:17
4:345:295:173:305:308:415:4623:135:565:545:562:416:3415:1712:1511:1218:41
Alexander · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men2:08:22
5:515:557:155:077:116:497:0110:516:525:366:321:597:0210:517:4715:539:56
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 · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 51:48 running, 1:15:56 at the stations and 18:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (23:13).Below, Alexander · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men: 55:31 running, 1:03:01 at the stations and 9:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:53).

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Part James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Alexander · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:34 5:51
SkiErg 5:29 5:55
Run 2 5:17 7:15
Sled push 3:30 5:07
Run 3 5:30 7:11
Sled pull 8:41 6:49
Run 4 5:46 7:01
Burpee broad jump 23:13 10:51
Run 5 5:56 6:52
Row 5:54 5:36
Run 6 5:56 6:32
Farmers carry 2:41 1:59
Run 7 6:34 7:02
Sandbag lunges 15:17 10:51
Run 8 12:15 7:47
Wall balls 11:12 15:53
Roxzone 18:41 9:56
Finish 2:26:17 2:08:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Alexander Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 2:26:17 2:25:46 0:31 · Alexander faster
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