Ian vs Richard

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Ian Goodey

2:00:46 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5362nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Richard Branson

1:27:41 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3470th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Ian: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Richard: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ian and Richard sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ian: strongest on Carry (faster than 39% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 1%).Richard: strongest on Ski (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 25%).

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Part Ian: faster than Richard: faster than
Ski 22% 82%
Push 25% 42%
Pull 7% 63%
BBJ 1% 34%
Row 35% 79%
Carry 39% 68%
Lunges 3% 25%
Wall balls 6% 30%
Roxzone 6% 33%
Runs 5% 38%

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

Part by part

Part Ian Richard
SkiErg 22% 82%
Sled push 25% 42%
Sled pull 7% 63%
Burpee broad jump 1% 34%
Row 35% 79%
Farmers carry 39% 68%
Sandbag lunges 3% 25%
Wall balls 6% 30%
Roxzone (moving) 6% 33%
Runs (8 km) 5% 38%

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

Ian · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men2:00:46
3:175:074:123:134:317:005:0412:395:595:065:292:116:2810:0510:2813:2016:46
Richard · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:27:41
2:564:333:562:554:034:284:086:184:254:394:201:524:536:146:248:5612:48
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.Ian · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 45:28 running, 58:41 at the stations and 16:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:20).Below, Richard · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 35:04 running, 39:55 at the stations and 12:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:56).

See the numbers
Part Ian · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Richard · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:17 2:56
SkiErg 5:07 4:33
Run 2 4:12 3:56
Sled push 3:13 2:55
Run 3 4:31 4:03
Sled pull 7:00 4:28
Run 4 5:04 4:08
Burpee broad jump 12:39 6:18
Run 5 5:59 4:25
Row 5:06 4:39
Run 6 5:29 4:20
Farmers carry 2:11 1:52
Run 7 6:28 4:53
Sandbag lunges 10:05 6:14
Run 8 10:28 6:24
Wall balls 13:20 8:56
Roxzone 16:46 12:48
Finish 2:00:46 1:27:41

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Ian Richard Gap
London Olympia (EMEA Championship) 2026 Open Men · 21 Mar 2026 2:04:10 2:03:39 0:31 · Richard faster
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 2:00:46 1:27:41 33:05 · Richard faster
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