Hector vs Michael

MEX MEX · Open Men · 8 results

Hector Castro

1:30:30 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3814th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Michael Thorburn

1:30:31 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3815th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Hector: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Michael: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Hector and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Hector: strongest on Ski (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 7%).Michael: strongest on Push (faster than 52% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 20%).

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Part Hector: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 66% 25%
Push 35% 52%
Pull 14% 51%
BBJ 47% 20%
Row 45% 42%
Carry 7% 40%
Lunges 21% 50%
Wall balls 40% 47%
Roxzone 22% 29%
Runs 41% 24%

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

Part by part

Part Hector Michael
SkiErg 66% 25%
Sled push 35% 52%
Sled pull 14% 51%
Burpee broad jump 47% 20%
Row 45% 42%
Farmers carry 7% 40%
Sandbag lunges 21% 50%
Wall balls 40% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 29%
Runs (8 km) 41% 24%

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

Hector · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:30:30
3:094:423:463:023:576:163:585:393:564:594:013:024:016:317:577:5813:44
Michael · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:30:31
3:485:054:162:474:294:464:427:144:495:014:222:104:305:116:447:3313:11
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.Hector · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 34:46 running, 42:09 at the stations and 13:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:58) and the shortest the sled push (3:02).Below, Michael · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:40 running, 39:47 at the stations and 13:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:33).

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Part Hector · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Michael · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:09 3:48
SkiErg 4:42 5:05
Run 2 3:46 4:16
Sled push 3:02 2:47
Run 3 3:57 4:29
Sled pull 6:16 4:46
Run 4 3:58 4:42
Burpee broad jump 5:39 7:14
Run 5 3:56 4:49
Row 4:59 5:01
Run 6 4:01 4:22
Farmers carry 3:02 2:10
Run 7 4:01 4:30
Sandbag lunges 6:31 5:11
Run 8 7:57 6:44
Wall balls 7:58 7:33
Roxzone 13:44 13:11
Finish 1:30:30 1:30:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Hector Michael Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:30:30 1:30:31 0:01 · Hector faster
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