Brian vs Ian

IRL IRL · Open Men · 6 results

Brian McElhinney

1:30:45 best Open Men time · Stockholm 2026
75th of 153 place in that race · 153 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Ian Redford

1:28:22 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2280th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Brian: Stockholm 2026, Open Men · Ian: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
BrianIanedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Brian and Ian sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brian: strongest on Push (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 15%).Ian: strongest on Push (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 17%).

See the numbers
Part Brian: faster than Ian: faster than
Ski 46% 17%
Push 88% 64%
Pull 60% 47%
BBJ 35% 33%
Row 49% 62%
Carry 15% 50%
Lunges 51% 54%
Wall balls 70% 38%
Roxzone 56% 36%
Runs 46% 39%

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

Part by part

Part Brian Ian
SkiErg 46% 17%
Sled push 88% 64%
Sled pull 60% 47%
Burpee broad jump 35% 33%
Row 49% 62%
Farmers carry 15% 50%
Sandbag lunges 51% 54%
Wall balls 70% 38%
Roxzone (moving) 56% 36%
Runs (8 km) 46% 39%

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

Brian · Stockholm 2026 · Open Men1:30:45
3:344:425:263:025:284:405:346:375:465:115:462:595:485:426:137:267:00
Ian · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:28:22
6:134:504:562:584:565:085:086:285:054:425:032:095:095:035:208:057:18
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.Brian · Stockholm 2026 · Open Men: 43:36 running, 40:19 at the stations and 7:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:26).Below, Ian · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 41:49 running, 39:23 at the stations and 7:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:05).

See the numbers
Part Brian · Stockholm 2026 · Open Men Ian · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:34 6:13
SkiErg 4:42 4:50
Run 2 5:26 4:56
Sled push 3:02 2:58
Run 3 5:28 4:56
Sled pull 4:40 5:08
Run 4 5:34 5:08
Burpee broad jump 6:37 6:28
Run 5 5:46 5:05
Row 5:11 4:42
Run 6 5:46 5:03
Farmers carry 2:59 2:09
Run 7 5:48 5:09
Sandbag lunges 5:42 5:03
Run 8 6:13 5:20
Wall balls 7:26 8:05
Roxzone 7:00 7:18
Finish 1:30:45 1:28:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brian Ian Gap
Stockholm 2026 Open Men · 18 Jun 2026 1:30:45 1:30:38 0:07 · Ian faster
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