Stephen vs James

IRL IRL · Pro Men · 3 results

Stephen Brehony

1:29:56 best Pro Men time · Dublin 2024
136th of 204 place in that race · 204 Pro Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 2 results

James O'Brien

1:37:19 best Pro Men time · Dublin 2025
323rd of 350 place in that race · 350 Pro Men finishers

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

Stephen: Warsaw 2025, Open Men · James: Málaga 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stephen and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stephen: strongest on Ski (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 11%).James: strongest on Lunges (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 26%).

See the numbers
Part Stephen: faster than James: faster than
Ski 63% 56%
Push 24% 34%
Pull 60% 41%
BBJ 31% 62%
Row 11% 46%
Carry 17% 26%
Lunges 25% 69%
Wall balls 37% 47%
Roxzone 51% 54%
Runs 41% 29%

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

Part by part

Part Stephen James
SkiErg 63% 56%
Sled push 24% 34%
Sled pull 60% 41%
Burpee broad jump 31% 62%
Row 11% 46%
Farmers carry 17% 26%
Sandbag lunges 25% 69%
Wall balls 37% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 51% 54%
Runs (8 km) 41% 29%

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

Stephen · Warsaw 2025 · Open Men1:27:09
3:334:235:112:525:394:095:466:216:115:236:062:246:175:445:066:405:32
James · Málaga 2026 · Open Men1:22:54
4:344:244:533:105:164:515:084:445:204:585:272:265:254:235:516:116:01
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.Stephen · Warsaw 2025 · Open Men: 43:49 running, 37:56 at the stations and 5:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:40).Below, James · Málaga 2026 · Open Men: 41:54 running, 35:07 at the stations and 6:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:11).

See the numbers
Part Stephen · Warsaw 2025 · Open Men James · Málaga 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:33 4:34
SkiErg 4:23 4:24
Run 2 5:11 4:53
Sled push 2:52 3:10
Run 3 5:39 5:16
Sled pull 4:09 4:51
Run 4 5:46 5:08
Burpee broad jump 6:21 4:44
Run 5 6:11 5:20
Row 5:23 4:58
Run 6 6:06 5:27
Farmers carry 2:24 2:26
Run 7 6:17 5:25
Sandbag lunges 5:44 4:23
Run 8 5:06 5:51
Wall balls 6:40 6:11
Roxzone 5:32 6:01
Finish 1:27:09 1:22:54

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stephen James Gap
Dublin 2025 Pro Men · 12 Nov 2025 1:37:54 1:37:19 0:35 · James faster
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