Simon vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Simon Brooks-Kelly

1:35:54 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4348th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Tait

1:28:46 best Open Men time · London 2024
1365th of 2,324 place in that race · 2,324 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: London 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on BBJ (faster than 60% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 2%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 15%).

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Part Simon: faster than James: faster than
Ski 47% 30%
Push 20% 67%
Pull 45% 29%
BBJ 60% 31%
Row 29% 43%
Carry 2% 59%
Lunges 28% 51%
Wall balls 5% 15%
Roxzone 32% 53%
Runs 31% 50%

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

Part by part

Part Simon James
SkiErg 47% 30%
Sled push 20% 67%
Sled pull 45% 29%
Burpee broad jump 60% 31%
Row 29% 43%
Farmers carry 2% 59%
Sandbag lunges 28% 51%
Wall balls 5% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 32% 53%
Runs (8 km) 31% 50%

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 · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:35:54
3:174:523:563:214:144:554:235:084:375:104:263:444:216:076:5513:4112:54
James · London 2024 · Open Men1:28:46
5:534:354:152:475:075:495:086:504:504:524:512:014:285:035:199:357:31
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 · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:08 running, 46:58 at the stations and 12:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:41) and the shortest the sled push (3:21).Below, James · London 2024 · Open Men: 39:51 running, 41:32 at the stations and 7:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:35).

See the numbers
Part Simon · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · London 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 3:17 5:53
SkiErg 4:52 4:35
Run 2 3:56 4:15
Sled push 3:21 2:47
Run 3 4:14 5:07
Sled pull 4:55 5:49
Run 4 4:23 5:08
Burpee broad jump 5:08 6:50
Run 5 4:37 4:50
Row 5:10 4:52
Run 6 4:26 4:51
Farmers carry 3:44 2:01
Run 7 4:21 4:28
Sandbag lunges 6:07 5:03
Run 8 6:55 5:19
Wall balls 13:41 9:35
Roxzone 12:54 7:31
Finish 1:35:54 1:28:46

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:35:54 1:35:55 0:01 · Simon faster
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