Simon vs Josh

NZL NZL · Open Men · 3 results

Simon McDowell

1:16:24 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
783rd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 5 results

Josh Goodwin

1:08:40 best Open Men time · Bangkok 2026
87th of 2,828 place in that race · 2,828 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Josh: Bangkok 2026, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
SimonJoshedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Simon and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Carry (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 35%).Josh: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 83%).

See the numbers
Part Simon: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 74% 93%
Push 73% 83%
Pull 41% 98%
BBJ 61% 96%
Row 75% 99%
Carry 90% 99%
Lunges 59% 94%
Wall balls 35% 89%
Roxzone 81% 97%
Runs 81% 95%

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

Part by part

Part Simon Josh
SkiErg 74% 93%
Sled push 73% 83%
Sled pull 41% 98%
Burpee broad jump 61% 96%
Row 75% 99%
Farmers carry 90% 99%
Sandbag lunges 59% 94%
Wall balls 35% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 97%
Runs (8 km) 81% 95%

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 · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:16:24
2:144:163:552:194:295:044:254:544:334:334:241:384:284:585:117:297:40
Josh · Bangkok 2026 · Open Men1:08:40
5:024:183:252:533:403:283:413:383:464:183:431:303:494:004:485:187:32
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 · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 33:39 running, 35:11 at the stations and 7:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:29).Below, Josh · Bangkok 2026 · Open Men: 31:55 running, 29:23 at the stations and 7:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:18).

See the numbers
Part Simon · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Josh · Bangkok 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:14 5:02
SkiErg 4:16 4:18
Run 2 3:55 3:25
Sled push 2:19 2:53
Run 3 4:29 3:40
Sled pull 5:04 3:28
Run 4 4:25 3:41
Burpee broad jump 4:54 3:38
Run 5 4:33 3:46
Row 4:33 4:18
Run 6 4:24 3:43
Farmers carry 1:38 1:30
Run 7 4:28 3:49
Sandbag lunges 4:58 4:00
Run 8 5:11 4:48
Wall balls 7:29 5:18
Roxzone 7:40 7:32
Finish 1:16:24 1:08:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon Josh Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:16:24 1:16:24 level
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