Howard vs Chris

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Howard Fox

1:41:33 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
3229th of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Chris Lydall

1:41:35 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
3231st of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers

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

Howard: Birmingham Birm, Open Men · Chris: Birmingham Birm, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Howard and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Howard: strongest on Carry (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 7%).Chris: strongest on BBJ (faster than 48% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 11%).

See the numbers
Part Howard: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 35% 12%
Push 26% 23%
Pull 44% 15%
BBJ 16% 48%
Row 7% 31%
Carry 46% 31%
Lunges 17% 11%
Wall balls 38% 15%
Roxzone 15% 16%
Runs 10% 15%

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

Part by part

Part Howard Chris
SkiErg 35% 12%
Sled push 26% 23%
Sled pull 44% 15%
Burpee broad jump 16% 48%
Row 7% 31%
Farmers carry 46% 31%
Sandbag lunges 17% 11%
Wall balls 38% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 16%
Runs (8 km) 10% 15%

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

Howard · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:41:33
6:134:415:233:495:544:466:017:416:165:366:132:116:236:477:177:538:38
Chris · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:41:35
6:005:025:223:545:375:575:365:415:435:035:272:265:377:317:5810:228:26
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.Howard · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 49:40 running, 43:23 at the stations and 8:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:53).Below, Chris · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 47:21 running, 45:56 at the stations and 8:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:22).

See the numbers
Part Howard · Birmingham Birm · Open Men Chris · Birmingham Birm · Open Men
Run 1 6:13 6:00
SkiErg 4:41 5:02
Run 2 5:23 5:22
Sled push 3:49 3:54
Run 3 5:54 5:37
Sled pull 4:46 5:57
Run 4 6:01 5:36
Burpee broad jump 7:41 5:41
Run 5 6:16 5:43
Row 5:36 5:03
Run 6 6:13 5:27
Farmers carry 2:11 2:26
Run 7 6:23 5:37
Sandbag lunges 6:47 7:31
Run 8 7:17 7:58
Wall balls 7:53 10:22
Roxzone 8:38 8:26
Finish 1:41:33 1:41:35

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Howard Chris Gap
Birmingham Birm Open Men · 27 Oct 2026 1:41:33 1:41:35 0:02 · Howard faster
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:56:13 1:45:30 10:43 · Chris faster
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