Simon vs Kial

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Simon Middlehurst

2:11:29 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
2471st of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Kial McDonald

2:09:15 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2643rd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: Manchester 2026, Open Men · Kial: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and Kial sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Push (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 1%).Kial: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 1%).

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Part Simon: faster than Kial: faster than
Ski 39% 14%
Push 81% 5%
Pull 7% 45%
BBJ 8% 25%
Row 8% 60%
Carry 8% 65%
Lunges 8% 44%
Wall balls 9% 23%
Roxzone 6% 4%
Runs 1% 1%

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

Part by part

Part Simon Kial
SkiErg 39% 14%
Sled push 81% 5%
Sled pull 7% 45%
Burpee broad jump 8% 25%
Row 8% 60%
Farmers carry 8% 65%
Sandbag lunges 8% 44%
Wall balls 9% 23%
Roxzone (moving) 6% 4%
Runs (8 km) 1% 1%

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

Simon · Manchester 2026 · Open Men2:11:29
5:164:288:162:209:106:279:259:029:305:279:273:119:258:178:1411:4611:56
Kial · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men2:09:15
7:124:597:114:4311:314:3111:147:1711:304:449:182:297:505:1211:578:548:47
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.Simon · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 1:08:44 running, 50:58 at the stations and 11:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:46) and the shortest the sled push (2:20).Below, Kial · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 1:17:43 running, 42:49 at the stations and 8:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:54).

See the numbers
Part Simon · Manchester 2026 · Open Men Kial · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:16 7:12
SkiErg 4:28 4:59
Run 2 8:16 7:11
Sled push 2:20 4:43
Run 3 9:10 11:31
Sled pull 6:27 4:31
Run 4 9:25 11:14
Burpee broad jump 9:02 7:17
Run 5 9:30 11:30
Row 5:27 4:44
Run 6 9:27 9:18
Farmers carry 3:11 2:29
Run 7 9:25 7:50
Sandbag lunges 8:17 5:12
Run 8 8:14 11:57
Wall balls 11:46 8:54
Roxzone 11:56 8:47
Finish 2:11:29 2:09:15

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon Kial Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 2:11:29 2:11:30 0:01 · Simon faster
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