Aaron vs Neil

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Aaron Cooper

2:00:52 best Open Men time · Copenhagen 2025
1280th of 1,322 place in that race · 1,322 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Neil Pennell

2:26:03 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3904th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Aaron: Copenhagen 2025, Open Men · Neil: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJ
no split
RowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
AaronNeiledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Aaron and Neil sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Aaron: strongest on Carry (faster than 9% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).Neil: strongest on Carry (faster than 26% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 0%).

See the numbers
Part Aaron: faster than Neil: faster than
Ski 4% 0%
Push 1% 3%
Pull 2% 8%
BBJ no split 5%
Row 3% 0%
Carry 9% 26%
Lunges 9% 5%
Wall balls 5% 3%
Roxzone 1% 0%
Runs 4% 1%

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

Part by part

Part Aaron Neil
SkiErg 4% 0%
Sled push 1% 3%
Sled pull 2% 8%
Burpee broad jump — 5%
Row 3% 0%
Farmers carry 9% 26%
Sandbag lunges 9% 5%
Wall balls 5% 3%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 0%
Runs (8 km) 4% 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

Aaron · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Men2:00:52
6:435:126:115:466:497:386:537:165:517:012:497:457:338:5111:0517:29
Neil · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:26:03
7:596:007:115:588:117:218:219:588:527:278:202:338:329:089:5415:5214:34
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.Aaron · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Men: 57:29 running, 45:54 at the stations and 17:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:05).Below, Neil · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 1:07:19 running, 1:04:17 at the stations and 14:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:52).

See the numbers
Part Aaron · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Men Neil · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:43 7:59
SkiErg 5:12 6:00
Run 2 6:11 7:11
Sled push 5:46 5:58
Run 3 6:49 8:11
Sled pull 7:38 7:21
Run 4 6:53 8:21
Burpee broad jump — 9:58
Run 5 7:16 8:52
Row 5:51 7:27
Run 6 7:01 8:20
Farmers carry 2:49 2:33
Run 7 7:45 8:32
Sandbag lunges 7:33 9:08
Run 8 8:51 9:54
Wall balls 11:05 15:52
Roxzone 17:29 14:34
Finish 2:00:52 2:26:03

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Aaron Neil Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:26:11 2:26:03 0:08 · Neil faster
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